US EditionMatisse's last years cut out -- but not pasted -- at Paris expo
The exhibition highlights Matisse's prolific late period despite illness and Nazi occupation, featuring 320 works including 75 paintings and iconic series like Blue Nudes, curator said.
- From Tuesday the Grand Palais in Paris will stage exhibition 'Matisse 1941-1954', reuniting seminal series by Henri Matisse and chronicling his final years.
- The exhibition focuses on his final years amid the Nazi occupation of France, when Matisse faced 1941 surgery and duodenal cancer diagnosis at 72, convalescing in Nice, France.
- Curators have assembled 320 works across paintings, sketches, gouache cut-outs, textiles and stained glass for the show spanning two floors of the Grand Palais with four 'Blue Nudes' included.
- Visitors can catch the late Matisse's essential works, including the Vence Chapel ornamentation, until July 26, Claudine Grammont said, 'What we wanted to recreate in the exhibition is this intimacy within the atelier'.
- Grammont frames the period as 'his apotheosis', noting Matisse painted 75 paintings between 1941 and 1954 and produced 40 works in 1950 alone.
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The rejoicing exhibition presents the late work of the artist, who never stopped experimenting, with his famous cut papers but also monumental canvases.
The Grand Palais devotes a magnificent exhibition to the last years of the great artist, from 1941 to 1954. The decade of paper cut and immense colored formats made by a resurrected painter after a serious illness. To be discovered from Tuesday 24 March.
Henri Matisse's Late, Great Paintings Go On Show at the Grand Palais
La Chute d’Icare, by Henri Matisse, 1943. An exhibition in Paris collects more than 230 works created by the French artist in his last decade, when illness confined him to a life in bed that sparked a spectacular burst of creativity By Nicholas Fox Weber In one of the last self-portraits Rembrandt painted before he died, in 1668, he is laughing heartily. His humor suggests that the only way to face the ultimate is to be as alive as possible. Céz…
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