Matisse: Art Notebooks, the turning point of the 1930s.
Co-published by the Meeting of National Museums - Grand Palais / Musée d'Orsay
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| N° d'inventaire | 26292 |
| Format | 25 x 33 |
| Détails | 256 p., illustrated, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782711879274 |
The 1930s marked a turning point in Henri Matisse's work. Despite his success, he grew tired of Nice interiors and languid nudes. With age and fame came rethinking: he needed something new, both in his themes and his painting techniques. Changing scale, he tackled The Dance, a vast mural composition intended for the Barnes Foundation in Merion, and thus made a fresh start, on the threshold of his sixtieth year.
Matisse's artistic activity was then closely followed by the great avant-garde magazine Cahiers d'art, launched by Christian Zervos in 1926.
In a moment of intense research, the painter's work became radical and found itself at the heart of the debates of ideas and artistic movements relayed by the Cahiers. It is through this prism that this book intends to explore Matisse's production in the 1930s, to restore the full scope of this rich period of creation, during which the artist established himself as one of the major figures of international modernism.
Matisse's artistic activity was then closely followed by the great avant-garde magazine Cahiers d'art, launched by Christian Zervos in 1926.
In a moment of intense research, the painter's work became radical and found itself at the heart of the debates of ideas and artistic movements relayed by the Cahiers. It is through this prism that this book intends to explore Matisse's production in the 1930s, to restore the full scope of this rich period of creation, during which the artist established himself as one of the major figures of international modernism.
Matisse's artistic activity was then closely followed by the great avant-garde magazine Cahiers d'art, launched by Christian Zervos in 1926.
In a moment of intense research, the painter's work became radical and found itself at the heart of the debates of ideas and artistic movements relayed by the Cahiers. It is through this prism that this book intends to explore Matisse's production in the 1930s, to restore the full scope of this rich period of creation, during which the artist established himself as one of the major figures of international modernism.