This book offers an in-depth view of this central motif, through which Matisse developed and continually explored his rich and imaginative repertoire of forms and colors. It features outstanding paintings from all of his creative periods, supplemented by ensembles of his bronze sculptures, his intricate drawings, and his cutouts and prints.
No other subject inspired Henri Matisse (1869--1954) with such passion throughout his career as the female figure in indoor settings. Many of his interiors focus on women reading, day-dreanaing, or sleeping, posing in the artist's studio, or odalisques lounging among Oriental decor.
This book offers an in-depth view of this central motif, through which Matisse developed and continually explored his rich and imaginative repertoire of forms and colors. It features outstanding paintings from all of his creative periods, supplemented by ensembles of his bronze sculptures, his intricate drawings, and his cutouts and prints. Historical photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, Helene Adant, and others show how leading art photographers saw Matisse's models and artfully designed studio interiors. A biography completes this presentation.
ARMIN ZWEITE · PIA MULLER-TAMM
Foreword and Acknowledgments
PIA MULLER-TAMM
Henri Matisse: Figure, Color, Space
MARGRET STUFFMANN
Henri Matisse: Drawing Without End
KATHARINA SYKORA
Looking through the Window:
Threshold Space and Femininity in Henri Matisse's "Rooms with a View"
BEATE SONTGEN
With Downcast Eyes: Figures of Reading in the Work of Henri Matisse
PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES, DRAWINGS.
PRINTS, PAPER CUTOUTS
with explanatory texts by MELANIE HORST and MARIA MULLER
GOTTFRIED BOEHM
Expression and Decoration: Henri Matisse in Quest of Himself
REMI LABRUSSE
The End of the Image Cult:
Some Remarks on the "Symphonic Interiors"(1911)
STEFAN GROHE
Body Control: Matisse the Painter Quotes Matisse the Sculptor
ISABELLE MONOD-FONTAINE
Figure decorative or, A Studio Painting
PETER KROPMANNS
Henri, Marianne, and Germania:
Matisse between the Fronts of French and German Art
KATHARINA SYKORA
At Second Glance: Henri Matisse and Photography
PHOTOGRAPHS
Biography
List of Works
Bibliography