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Item Number: 115746
Title: Les dessins au pinceau de MATISSE
Author: Kanner, Patrick (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9782754105972
Description: Paris: Hazan, 2011. 27cm., pbk., 192pp., 200 illus. Exhibition held at Musée Matisse du Cateau-Cambrésis. French text. Summary: This exhibition brings together Henri Matisse’s brush drawings for the first time, from the first brush drawings done with Albert Marquet in the streets of Paris in 1900 to their ultimate accomplishment in the chapel at Vence, where Matisse found a harmony between his monumental drawings and the cut-out colours of his gouache collages for the stained glass windows. This exhibition is part of a major ‘euro-regional’ programme led by the Association des Conservateurs des Musées du Nord–Pas de Calais, entitled ‘Dessiner-Tracer’ and involving 28 museums, including institutions in Picardy and Belgium. Portraits, masks, acrobats, plane trees: the brush and ink drawings began in 1946 with a portrait of one of Matisse’s favourite models, Lydia Delectorskaya: a simple outline varying in width and a few lines for what Argaon described as the ‘eye’ and ‘mouth’ signs. In the chapel at Vence, Matisse covered the walls with brush drawings of Saint Dominic, a Madonna and Child surrounded by flowers and a Stations of the Cross, described by Matisse as ‘the most profound drama of mankind’. The mask-portraits followed in the 1950s, sometimes mingling with the gouache cut-out collages, while his drawings of acrobats covered the white paper with arabesques. The seven drawings of monumental plane trees prepared the drawing on the corner ceramics of the dining room of the publisher Tériade at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. Matisse drew and painted at the same time, achieving the utmost linear and chromatic simplicity to attain the spiritual dimension he was seeking.
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