Among the casualties were examples by Henri Matisse, Edgar Degas, Kurt Schwitters, Jean Pougny and Egon Schiele.
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Whereas Picasso knew how to compete against fellow painters from Georges Braque to Henri Matisse, Duchamp could not be beat.
Also in Cimiez, found through a dense olive grove, is a 17th-century Genoese villa, which houses the Henri Matisse Museum.
In 1869, Henri Matisse, the French painter and sculptor, was born.
The raid led Citizen's Protection Minister Christos Papoutsis to criticize security at the gallery, which is home to works by Auguste Rodin, Henri Matisse and Peter Paul Rubens.
The first thing you notice upon entering "The Late Interiors" is Bonnard's incandescent use of color--as inventive and rich as that of his friend and colleague Henri Matisse.
Henri Matisse's refusal to give Pierre exclusivity to his work in New York led contemporaries to believe that he did not really want him to succeed as a dealer.
Claude Duthuit, Henri Matisse's grandson, also spurned Otsuka.
Spirit of the 20th-century Parisian Scene (until 9 June) features 150 of his works, many from private collections, as well as 80 works by artists that he was said to have inspired, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Andy Warhol.
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The letters also show that Pierre was very often the mediator in family feuds particularly when the doughty Madame Henri Matisse finally packed her bags after over 40 years of marriage, accusing her elderly husband of having an affair with Lydia Delectorskaya, his Russian assistant and model.
This succeeds far better with the wide array of comparative art examples in the catalog than in the exhibition itself, where a smattering of works by Henri Matisse, Henry Moore and others seem more like a distraction from the many exquisite Ice Age examples, which also include spectacular animal carvings and decoratively engraved tools.
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