Matisse: Life & Spirit
Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou, Paris
20 November 2021 – 13 March 2022
Major exhibition gallery
Art Gallery of NSW
This Sydney-exclusive exhibition offers an extraordinary immersion in the range and depth of the art of Henri Matisse, one of the world’s most beloved, innovative and influential artists. Developed in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which holds an exceptional collection of works by the artist, Matisse: Life & Spirit, Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou, Paris is the greatest single exhibition of Matisse masterworks ever to be seen in Sydney.
Filled with brilliant colour, dynamic energy, visual joy and emotional power, it’s an inspirational journey through the life and art of this ceaselessly inventive and life-affirming painter.
2. Matisse: Life & Spirit, Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou
20 November 2021 – 13 March 2022, Major exhibition gallery - Art
Gallery of New South Wales, one of Australia's most popular art
museums, presents the largest collection of the revered painter’s joyous
work to ever wing its way to Sydney, with thanks to the world-famous
Parisian home of contemporary art.
Spanning six decades of the artist’s work, Matisse: Life & Spirit presents
an extraordinary immersion in the range and depth of the art of Henri
Matisse, one of the world’s most beloved, innovative and influential artists
3. Developed in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which holds an exceptional collection of works by the artist,
Matisse: Life & Spirit is the greatest single exhibition of Matisse masterworks ever to be seen in Sydney
7. Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Decorative figure on an ornamental ground
(Figure décorative sur fond ornemental) 1925–26
Matisse’s suite of small bronze busts of Jeannette and Henriette
8. Matisse: Life & Spirit,
Masterpieces from the
Centre Pompidou at
Art Gallery of New
South Wales Sydney
20. What many don’t realise is that Matisse
played violin every day. That passion for
movement, music, pause and flow is
amplified across this incredible room of
work
Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954)
Blue nude II (Nu bleu II) 1952
30. Henri Matisse
(French, 1869-
1954)
The sorrow of the
king
(La tristesse du
roi)
1952
The majestic self-
portrait The
sorrow of the
king, one of the
largest of the
famous cut-outs
that the artist
created in his late
career
35. In addition to his bold innovations
in painting and sculpture, Matisse
produced several extraordinary
artists’ books, the majority of which
were made after a bout with
intestinal cancer in 1941 that left
him largely bedridden. This plate is
one of twenty made to illustrate his
groundbreaking book Jazz. Despite
its musical title—likely named for
the experimental, improvisational
nature of its compositions—the
book’s dominant themes are the
circus and theater. The illustrations
derive from maquettes of cut and
pasted colored papers, which were
printed using a stencil technique
known as pochoir.
36. Still life with shell, 1940 The swimmer in the tank La nageuse dans l'aquarium 1947
The Horse, the Rider, and the Clown 1943-4 The cowboy, 1947
Henri
Matisse
(French,
1869-1954)
Jazz
collection
Pierrot's
funeral,
from
the
illustrated
book
Jazz
The
circus,
from
the
illustrated
book
Jazz
1947
60. A special presentation focused on his work in Chapel of the Rosary in
Vence, in the south of France, is at the heart of the exhibition. It’s
considered to be the culmination of his life’s work
Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954)
Virgin and Child 1950-51
61.
62. Justin Paton,
curator of
‘Matisse: Life and
Spirit’
Henri Matisse
(French, 1869-
1954)
Chapel of the
Rosary
Vitrail bleu pâle
(Pale blue stained-
glass)
68. Works by Henri Matisse on
view in the exhibition, Matisse
& Picasso, at the National
Gallery of Australia 2020
69. A security guard with Matisse’s portrait of Lydia
Delectorskaya, titled The Romanian Blouse, at the
National Gallery of Australia
70. Text & pictures: Internet
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Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu
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2022
Sound: Mendelssohn Bartholdy - Violin Concerto Op. 64-3; David Oistrakh, violin State Symphony Orchestra of USSR
Hinweis der Redaktion
Matisse, The sorrow of the king, 1952Matisse’s final self portrait. This work refers to one of Rembrandt’s paintings, David Playing the Harp before Saul, in which the young biblical hero plays to distract the king from his melancholy, as well as to Rembrandt’s late self portraits. Here Matisse depicts the themes of old age, of looking back towards earlier life (La vie antérieure, the title of a poem by Baudelaire that Matisse had already illustrated) and of music soothing all cares. Matisse has represented himself by the central black form, like a silhouette of himself sitting in his armchair, surrounded by the pleasures that have enriched his life. He has combined a number of recurring themes from his life. The yellow petals fluttering away have the gaiety of musical notation while the green odalisque symbolizes the Orient and a dancer pays homage to the female body and sensuousness