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Woman with a Hat (French: La femme au chapeau) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Henri Matisse.It depicts Matisse's wife, Amélie Matisse. [1] It was painted in 1905 and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne during the autumn of the same year, along with works by André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck and several other artists later known as "Fauves".
While Matisse had been baptized a Catholic, he had not practiced the religion for many years. The story of the friendship and collaboration of Matisse and Sister Jacques Marie is related in her 1992 book, Henri Matisse: La Chapelle de Vence (ISBN 2909767000) and in the 2003 documentary Model for Matisse. [3] Sister Jacques Marie died in 2004 ...
Woman on a High Stool (1914). Oil on canvas, 147 x 95.5 cm. In the collection of the MoMA, New York City. Woman on a High Stool (French: Femme au tabouret or La femme assise) is an oil painting on canvas by the French artist Henri Matisse from early 1914. It is held in the Museum of Modern Art, in New York.
Young Woman in White on a Red Background (French: Jeune femme en blanc, fond rouge) is an oil on canvas painting by Henri Matisse, from c. 1946. It is held in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
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The woman is proportional to the table. The woman gives context to the time of the painting with the clothing she is wearing and the action she is completing. In the book Matisse: The Man and His Art, Katharine Kuh compares Harmony in Red with Matisse's painting Bathers with a Turtle, completed between 1907 and 1908.
Matisse's style changed and evolved drastically throughout his career, including his wide and varying collection of paintings depicting female nudes. His odalisque paintings were inspired by his trip to Morocco. Many of the female subjects in the Odalisque paintings were modeled after Matisse's main model at the time, Henriette Darricarrère.
An Essay on Matisse is a 1996 American short documentary film on artist Henri Matisse directed by Perry Wolff. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]