The Large Reclining Nude (Pink Nude)centerpiece of the Baltimore museum. woman with veil from MoMa in New York. The Great Blue Dress and Mimosas of the Philadelphia Museum. Still life with sleeper arrival of the Washington National Gallery of Art…
This exhibition, co-produced by the Matisse museum in Nice, the Orangerie museum in Paris and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is heavy. “There are paintings there that have never come to Nice.”
We understand and we share the ecstasy of the interim president of the museum Aymeric Jeudy and his team concerning the collection of numerous national and international loans: 50 out of the 150 works presented.
Diving into the 1930s
The era is targeted: the 1930s. “A fundamental decade for Matisse, who at that time rented apartments-studios in the Cours Saleya, then bought one in the Régina de Cimiez.” Review Art books serves as a red thread for this large chronological frieze revealing Matisse’s studio life. A hard worker who adored photography, canoeing, rare objects, all regions of the world, birds, flowers, who drew in one line, painted, engraved, sculpted, illustrated, who introduced cut-out gouaches .
It’s varied, rich, colorful, dense, intense, vibrant. Nice production also shines through the odalisques.
“A criticized period where Matisse is reproached for being easy when it is a period of experimentation. Matisse listens, stops painting in the early 1930s…” First trip to the United States from New York to San Francisco, then to Tahiti. A decisive turning point in the artist’s work.
Throughout the rooms, we understand, we learn a lot of things about the man. His relationship to the movement of the hand, his love for an omnipresent Etruscan vase, 22 photographic states that Matisse takes from a painting in progress, the monumentality, etc. What an atmosphere!
2023-08-02 09:30:00
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