Around the same time as "The Thousand and One Nights, " Matisse was overseeing the construction of the so-called Matisse Chapel on the French Riviera and the artist's self-proclaimed magnum opus.
Not the provenance of who owned works by Matisse but the history of who knew and who knows his works.
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Still, this is a story that cannot be told without Breton because such was his dominating personality that, with the exception of Duchamp, Picasso and the aging Matisse, all the poets, writers and artists of the day were forced to define themselves as his friend or foe (and many of course went from friend to foe).
And that unique quality should make this show, along with the Matisse-Picasso exhibition at the Tate Modern, one of the hits of the summer season.
In 1869, Henri Matisse, the French painter and sculptor, was born.
The collection, given to the city by the artist and his heirs, includes paintings, drawings, sculptures, photography and prints, most of which Matisse completed during the nearly four decades he spent in Nice.
John Elderfield of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Elizabeth Cowling of the Tate, two curators working with Mr Golding (in a three-country team of six) on the Matisse-Picasso show.
His contemporary Jean-Luc Godard may have stolen the intellectual limelight, as Pablo Picasso did from Henri Matisse, but as the years pass Mr. Truffaut's unashamed passion and exuberant skill confirm him as the most lovable of all French New Wave directors.
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Another way to appreciate their work is on the Le Chemin du Fauvisme, a path through and above the town where 20 replicas of Matisse and Derain are placed in the same spots the artists painted them.
Also in the show, paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec, Cassatt, Gauguin, Bonnard, Matisse, and Picasso demonstrate the spells that Degas cast on younger artists.
Special screenings of BBC Two's recent two-part Omnibus on Matisse took place throughout the night.
Unsure of his new direction, Matisse told friends that the second painting was by the local postman.
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When confined to his bed, Matisse would sketch on the ceiling by attaching brushes and charcoal to a long pole.
Also in Cimiez, found through a dense olive grove, is a 17th-century Genoese villa, which houses the Henri Matisse Museum.
De Pin said that even with the reputation Matisse had, it meant nothing to him as he continued to struggle with creating exceptional work.
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One of the most beloved pieces Matisse made during those last few years is an abstract take on "One Thousand and One Nights, " the famed collection of Middle Eastern folk tales relayed by the fictional Scheherazade each evening to avoid death at the hands of a murderous Persian king.
Matisse would surely have appreciated the palette displayed under the glass counter of the Fenocchio ice-cream shop in the old town.
The latter, Picasso's 1955 interpretation of Delacroix's paintings of four North African courtesans, was created in honor of the recently deceased Matisse.
In 1955 he suddenly embraced representation, turning out dozens of figurative paintings that translate the language of Matisse into a wholly personal, semiabstract style.
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And just as Matisse's paeans to the tension between the three-dimensional world and the flat canvas have been dismissed as "decorative" because of their glorious color and patterning, Veronese's lush figure groups have been similarly labeled, for similar reasons.
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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.
Among the casualties were examples by Henri Matisse, Edgar Degas, Kurt Schwitters, Jean Pougny and Egon Schiele.
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Matisse illustrated volumes by writers like James Joyce over the years.
Nor is a fast-appreciating Matisse that was bought at auction and then donated to the Met.
In reinstalling the piece, she says that she couldn't help seeing the parallels between Scheherazade's plight and Matisse's own desperate situation.
Now, that emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, reportedly has his eye on the Detroit Institute of Arts, where the collection includes works by world renowned figures like Matisse, Van Gogh and Rembrandt.
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