BofA launches art-exhibition program Apr 17, 2008
Other exhibitions include The Art Books of Henri Matisse, American Impressionists, The Wyeth Family: Three Generations, the Hewitt Collection of African-American Art and Art of the West. BofA (NYSE:BAC) is based in Charlotte. (Charlotte Business Journal, NC)
Honoring the Big Leaguers II (A Visual Metaphor) - Enriquillo Amiama Apr 10, 2008
Chief Curator of Bellarte, Park, Jong Chul wrote about Enriquillos works that while paying respect to Jasper Jones, Henri Matisse, Georgia O'Keeffe Domingo Batista, and Kandinsky, he creates his own independent aesthetic creativity that confirms his spotlight in this century ... While paying respect to Jasper Jones, Henri Matisse, Georgia O'Keeffe Domingo Batista, and Kandinsky, he creates his own independent aesthetic creativity that confirms his spotlight in this century. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Artist discusses work at Schweinfurth Apr 7, 2008
But it was while studying at the Art Institute in Chicago that Carlson stumbled across one of his greatest influences, Henri Matisse. Carlson admitted that initially he didn't really appreciate the work of Matisse, feeling like many art students trying to find their own voice, that his instructors were on the wrong path. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Color -- urban and rural -- a part of Hagin's world Mar 28, 2008
While she says she had earlier been influenced by Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard and the figurative works of Richard Diebenkorn of the early 1960s, in the 1970s her "two new favorite artists" were Jo hannes Vermeer and Edward Hop per, whom she calls "visual truth- tellers.". In "Oval Glass," a watercolor on paper she painted in 2001, her mas tery of yellow is comparable to Ver meer. (NJ.com -- Times)
Read Indepth Article Mar 16, 2008
IMAGEJohn Nolan Title: Girl With Green Eyes After Henri Matisse Year Created: 2007 Medium: Acrylic Painting Width: 40 inches Height: 30 inches. Related Links. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Books About Art For Kids Mar 10, 2008
Fish includes art by Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Jacob Lawerence, Diego Rivera, Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Georges Seurat, Frida Kahlo and Marc Chagall. Margaret Hyde has a series of board books About Art for kids that feature such artists as Mary Cassatt, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Renoir, and Vincent Van Gogh. (Suite101.com)
Catholic Scientists Mar 9, 2008
Artists Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse were Catholic as was Salvador Dali who returned to his Catholic roots in later life. Painter of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo and painter of The Last Supper (and recent namesake of the contraversial Da Vinci Code book) Leonardo da Vinci were Catholic. (Suite101.com)
City of Basel Rejects Bid for Munch, Chagall Art by Nazi Victim's Heirs Mar 1, 2008
Feb. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The city of Basel rejected a claim by the heirs of Curt Glaser, a Jewish art collector persecuted by the Nazis, for the return of more than 100 works by artists including Edvard Munch, Max Beckmann, Marc Chagall and Henri Matisse. Glaser was director of Berlin's Art Library and an art historian and critic who had Munch and Beckmann as friends. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Brisbane's GoMA scores Picasso show Feb 29, 2008
Coming soon: This Henri Matisse painting, Marguerite (Marguerite) 1906-07, is part of Pablo Picasso's personal art collection. (GoMA). (ABC Online)
Looted paintings exhibited Feb 23, 2008
The exhibits include paintings by masters like Henri Matisse, Claude Monet and Georges Seurat. Visitors who recognize a painting as their own and can prove it can file a claim and potentially take it home. (Xinhuanet, China)
* [ ART JOURNAL ] Looted by Nazis and unclaimed, art goes on display in Jerusalem Feb 20, 2008
Consisting of some 80 pieces in all, the exhibits at the Israel Museum include works by masters like Henri Matisse and Georges Seurat, paintings owned by the Rothschild banking family, and other masterpieces worth millions of US dollars. The first exhibit, Looking for Owners, is made up of 53 paintings on loan from French museums. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Nazi-looted art goes on display Feb 20, 2008
The exhibits, which include paintings by masters like Henri Matisse, Claude Monet and Georges Seurat, are meant to bring to life the dramatic stories behind the art -- and perhaps reunite the works with the owners or heirs. Visitors who recognize a painting as their own and can prove it can file a claim. (CNN -- World)
Foreign aid workers to pull out after women are kidnapped Feb 16, 2008
The Matisse museum in the north-eastern French village of Le Cateau, the birthplace of the post-Impressionist painter Henri Matisse, has been transformed by one of the most significant donations of modern art in France in the past 20 years. Saturday, 16 February 2008. (Yahoo News -- Rap and Hip-Hop)
COLOR eruption Feb 15, 2008
The style -- evoking in your mind the work of masters Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse -- is modern and fluid. Faces can be heart-shaped, bodies can be blue, and proportions can be exaggerated. (Fresno Bee)
Russian art collectors' heirs want compensation Jan 22, 2008
Of the more than 120 works in the exhibition 13 were once owned by Morozov and 23 were owned by Shchukin, including The Dance by Henri Matisse. But they added: "What we are questioning is the extremely violent way in which these extraordinary collections, gathered over many years by our forefathers, were taken." They said there should be "an agreement made that reasonably compensates and pays a percentage of the material benefits that accrue from exploitation of the works". (Guardian Unlimited)
From Nice to Knysna| Jan 14, 2008
Artist Henri Matisse made it his home the Matisse Museum is one of 19 museums and galleries in the city, and is close to the artists final resting place. The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art is another cultural highlight, where American Pop Art hangs alongside New European Realism. (iAfrica.com)
Russia OKs art exhibition in London, clearing way for opening as planned Jan 10, 2008
Russian authorities had threatened to scuttle the show "From Russia: French and Russian Master Paintings 1870-1925" at the Royal Academy, citing fears that works by Henri Matisse, Vincent van Gogh and others owned by pre-Revolutionary Russian collectors could be seized in connection with lawsuits or court decisions while on display. Acting to assuage Russian fears, Britain sped up the enactment of legislation barring seizure of artworks lent by foreign countries to British museums and galleries. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Russia Threatens to Withhold Art Works Dec 22, 2007
One of the paintings -- "The Dance," by Henri Matisse -- is prominently featured in the planned Royal Academy exhibition. Another concern is that companies with legal claims against Russia might try to have artwork seized as assets as part of debt recovery lawsuits. (BusinessWeek)
Brazil museum's Picasso stolen Dec 21, 2007
In February 2006, a five-man gang stole works by Salvador Dali, Henri Matisse, Picasso and Claude Monet from a Rio de Janeiro museum. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Americas)
CAROL STRICKLAND: We get the art we deserve Dec 21, 2007
"To see" as Henri Matisse said, "is itself a creative operation, requiring an effort." It's OK not to like the art or not like what it suggests. But grant the respect of trying to understand what the work is saying. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Picasso painting stolen from Sao Paulo museum Dec 21, 2007
In February, artwork by Picasso, Henri Matisse, Salvador Dali and Claude Monet were taken from Chacara do Ceu Museum in Riode Janeiro. Joao Portinari, son of the Brazilian painter, told local press that he believed the criminals may get in touch with him for negotiation. (Xinhuanet, China)
Royal Academy show in doubt as Russia withdraws artworks Dec 20, 2007
The Royal Academy of Arts is due to open its 13-week show, From Russia: French and Russian Master Paintings 1870-1925, next month, displaying together for the first time in the UK more than 120 works such as The Dance, by Henri Matisse in 1910, and Maternity (Women on the Seashore), by Paul Gauguin, in 1898. Other paintings include works by Renoir, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Picasso and Kandinsky. (Independent)
L.A. museum given Picasso, Matisse works Dec 14, 2007
LOS ANGELES - Two private collectors are donating 130 works by major artists, including Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, museum officials announced this week. The gift from Janice and Henri Lazarof includes 20 works by Picasso; two versions of Constantin Brancusi's signature bronze, "Bird in Space;" seven figurative sculptures and a painting by Alberto Giacometti; two dozen works by Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Lyonel Feininger and Impressionist... (MSNBC -- News)
LACMA gets huge gift Dec 12, 2007
" About 80 works from the collection will go on view Jan. 13, a month before the museum unveils the first phase of an ambitious expansion and renovation program that includes a new contemporary art building financed by Los Angeles collector-philanthropist Eli Broad. The Lazarof donation will debut in three galleries on the plaza level of the Ahmanson Building, in a new 22,000-square-foot showcase for modern art. Although Henri Lazarof is a veteran composer and his wife, a daughter of the late... (Los Angeles Times)
Museum Holiday Presents 2007 Nov 21, 2007
His younger sibling acquired works by Georges Seurat (1859-1891), Paul Czanne (1839-1906), Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Edward Hopper (1882-1967) and Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). Vander Ende-Onderdonk House, Ridgewood, NY USA. (Suite101.com)
Art Market Stays Strong at Auctions Nov 16, 2007
Overall sales set a record, and works by Henri Matisse, Mark Rothko, and Francis Bacon fetched higher-than-expected prices. Americans also surprised the art world by competing for art despite the weak dollar. (Wall Street Journal)
Holiday Gifts: Museum Books 2007 Nov 13, 2007
How these sculptures influenced early 20th-century avant-garde artists such as Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Henri Matisse (1869-1954) when the objects first surfaced in ethnographic museums is aptly described. more in suite. (Suite101.com)
Van Gogh fails to sell at auction Nov 9, 2007
Twenty out of the 76 lots on offer failed to attract buyers, including four works by Picasso and others by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse, and Claude Monet. David Norman, co-chairman of impressionist and modern art at Sotheby's, insisted that while the results were disappointing, the market remained sound and blamed the poor sales on overly-optimistic estimates. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
NYC Art Auction Brings in Nearly $400 Million Nov 8, 2007
New York: A woman looks at "L'Odalisque, harmonie bleue", 1937 by Henri Matisse, on display as part of the Impressionist and Modern Art, 02 Nov 2007. A painting by French artist Henri Matisse was the top seller at an art auction in New York City Tuesday night. (Voice of America)
Art collection is sold for $395m Nov 8, 2007
A collection of works by several artists including Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso have sold for $395m (188m) at an auction in New York. A 1937 Matisse painting, L'Odalisque, Harmonie Blueue, sold for $33. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Asian Artists Paint the Color Of Money Nov 3, 2007
In Vietnam, the 20th century's most promising painters attended the ;cole Sup;rieure des Beaux-Arts de L'Indochine, an academy set up in Hanoi in 1925 by a classmate of Henri Matisse. There, the idiom was Western classical with a dash of impressionism thrown in for modern ;lan. (Time.com)
Writing beyond self through the lens of memoir Oct 31, 2007
David Hamilton, the editor of The Iowa Review and a longtime friend and colleague of Hampl, related her work to that of the French artist Henri Matisse and his female subjects. The art becomes an inverse self-portrait where the focus centers not on the individual but the way the artist sees. (Daily Iowan, IA)
African Art Special Exhibitions Oct 27, 2007
Many of these African inspired early 20th-century avant-garde artists such as Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Andr Derain (1880-1954), Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958) and Henri Matisse (1869-1954) when they first appeared in ethnographic museums. These aesthetic associations are also explored. (Suite101.com)
Ileana Sonnabend, 92; art dealer, collector Oct 27, 2007
She and Castelli picked out a watercolor by Henri Matisse, Tomkins wrote. After the outbreak of World War II, the couple escaped Europe and settled in New York City, where Castelli was a private art dealer until he opened a gallery in their home in 1957. (Los Angeles Times)
Hodler climbs to new heights Oct 23, 2007
It places them alongside 40 similar works by Henri Matisse, Ferdinand Hodler and Wilhelm Lehmbruck to allow comparisons between the four artists ... While in France he worked with Henri Matisse, whose use of colour also influenced his work. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
From Russia, with some concern Oct 23, 2007
Dance (II), 1910, Henri Matisse. Photo: Royal Academy of Arts/PA. (Guardian Unlimited)
Georgia OKeeffe and Andy Warhol Oct 4, 2007
Like the late work of Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and even Titan, they are completely unfettered by the tentative markings of a younger artist, said Warhol Museum Director, Tom Sokolowski. This small exhibition is just a foretaste of a large exhibition comparing the working processes of OKeeffe and Warhol which will be co-organized by The Andy Warhol Museum and The Georgia OKeeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Galleries: Robert Colescott comes of age, in living color Sep 30, 2007
Like many of Colescott's paintings, this one incorporates autobiographical references, no doubt many more than we can recognize, such as the Pyramids that evoke his pivotal 1960s sojourn in Egypt, plus allusions to other artists, including Henri Matisse and Philip Guston. The allusions occur at the levels of color, drawing and imagery. (San Francisco Chronicle)
* Unusual portraits from the turn of the 20th century ve Sep 17, 2007
Using geometric shapes, lines and out-of-proportion features, artists such as Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh and Henri Matisse experimented with the genre. Nearly 100 paintings were on display at Fort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum in "The Mirror and the Mask: Portraiture in the Age of Picasso," an exhibit which ended yesterday. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Children's art takes sting out of hospital Sep 7, 2007
To inspire them, she showed them still lifes by French post-impressionist Henri Matisse. Maggie Burke, a 7-year-old second- grader, is one of Roppelt's students. (Towson Times, MD)
Let's Face It! is a creative outlet Sep 7, 2007
They started out looking at the work of Henri Matisse, and Gustav Klimt, whose work is full of color and pattern. Then they moved on to more realistic painting like Davinci s Mona Lisa and Edgar Degas. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Opponents urge judge to reconsider Barnes move Aug 28, 2007
His collection has been housed since 1925 in a 23-room limestone gallery by acclaimed French architect Paul Philippe Cret that features a Henri Matisse mural inside and Jacques Lipchitz reliefs on the exterior. Inside, Barnes placed his paintings close together and grouped them with objects like metal hinges and wrought ironwork as a teaching tool to illustrate common aesthetic themes. (NEPA News, PA)
Read more... Aug 25, 2007
Phillips forged relationships with many artists of varying degrees of renown, welcoming them to the house, including Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse ... The Phillips Collection is home to one of the most exquisite collections of impressionist and modern American and European art in the world with works by artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Vincent van Gogh, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Czanne, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Claude Monet, Honor Daumier, Georgia OKeeffe,... (PNN Online)
Walter Oppenheimer, cofounded fashion house, was art collector Aug 12, 2007
On their frequent business trips to Europe to buy fabric, the Oppenheimers began to collect art by Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and other modern European masters. "It all started with one little Braque painting that we both fell in love with in Paris," Mr. Oppenheimer once said of the collection. (Boston Globe)
* Cooling off at MoMA on a summer's day Aug 2, 2007
It was a workout, but it was great, and it ended with an anyone-can-join-in party: beach blanket bingo with Seurat (a real doll); Henri Matisse in a skimmer (let's have a smile, Henri); Liubov Popova, in from Russia (she designed her own bathing suit, and earrings, and shoes); and Pablo Picasso, who flexed nonstop. I worried that they'd have nothing to say to one another. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Art forger finds Hollywood fame Jul 15, 2007
Myatt had advertised a service copying paintings, but Drewe persuaded him to recreate the work of some of the greatest names in art, including Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, and Henri Matisse. The story then moved on to the archives of the Tate and the Victoria t Museum, where Drewe slipped faked records for the paintings into the filing systems to create false provenances. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Tolkien trilogy sold at auction Jul 8, 2007
A 23-volume set of Charles Dickens novels fetched 4,100, while a copy of James Joyce's Ulysses, illustrated by French artist Henri Matisse, sold for 1,500. Bids for the collection were made from buyers in France, the United States and Japan, as well as the UK.. (Yahoo News -- Lord of the Rings)
Palo Alto show a lush garden of painterly delights Jul 8, 2007
When design overtakes McCormack's work, it strangles the nourishing passage into her art of remembrances of Henri Matisse, Richard Diebenkorn, Pierre Bonnard, even Barnett Newman. But the Palo Alto Art Center show does for McCormack what a survey should do: It inspires confidence in her as an artist and confirms a growing, uncalculating authority -- just what we hope to see in a painter's art. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Show helps you form a different picture of Matisse Jul 1, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO -- I don't know for sure that Henri Matisse, the famed painter and sculptor, actually put both arms behind his head, lifted his left knee and leaned perilously back like a teeter-totter, just like the sculpture he made titled "Large Seated Nude." But I like to imagine him contorting himself into such a position. After all, Matisse used to tell his students: "Assume the pose of the model yourself. Where the strain comes is the key to movement."That feeling of motion -- of quivering... (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Bacon, Freud Joined Top Artists in Sales That Made $883 Million Jun 26, 2007
The week's fifth most expensive work, the pill cabinet, one of four called ``The Four Seasons,'' placed just below a 1942 Henri Matisse painting, ``Danseuse Dans le Fauteuil,'' that took a record 11 million pounds at Sotheby's. Hirst is the Google of the art world,'' said New York dealer Alberto Mugrabi after the Sotheby's sale. (Bloomberg)
Hirst now most expensive living artist Jun 23, 2007
6-million, also set a series of records for artists including Henri Matisse, Tracey Emin and Frank Auerbach. Matisse's Danseuse dans le fauteuil, sol en damier sold for 11-million toward the higher end of its presale estimate of 8-12-million raising the record price by just under 1-million. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Monet masterpiece sells for 18m Jun 20, 2007
The sale will also feature works by Henri Matisse, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Pablo Picasso. Waterloo Bridge, Temps Couvert is one of a series of views of the bridge and river that Monet painted from his room at the Savoy Hotel around the start of the 20th Century. (BBC News -- Europe)
Monet's Nympheas sells for 18.5m Jun 20, 2007
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A master of the canvas who also tried his hand at sculpture Jun 10, 2007
Each represents Henri Matisse (1869-1954) struggling with some problem of form, technique or meaning in a medium that he took on only after he had found his feet in painting. The organizers of "Matisse: Painter as Sculptor," include Steven Nash, formerly of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and until recently director of the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Eight works by Picasso among treasures of VAG exhibition Jun 10, 2007
Thom said the exhibition includes a "pair of superb" paintings by Henri Matisse and three by Paul Cezanne, four by Claude Monet, including The Red Kerchief: Portrait of Madame Monet, a painting of his wife that Monet considered so important he kept it all his life. The exhibit has one painting and two drawings by surrealist artist Salvador Dali. (Vancouver Sun)
It’s the summer of the arts in Milton Jun 7, 2007
KEEP THOSE CREATIVE JUICES FLOWING OVER SUMMER Deb Owens, TIME chair of promotions and marketing, holds up a copy of Henri Matisse s Beasts of the Sea ... Another two events this summer will allow students to try the painting style of Henri Matisse, a well-known artist from the early 20th century. (Milton Standard Journal, PA)
Monet masterpiece for sale Jun 6, 2007
The sale will also feature works by Henri Matisse, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Pablo Picasso. Francis Bacon's 1978 Self Portrait will form the centrepiece of a Contemporary Art sale at Sotheby's on 21 June. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Barnes move is debated May 25, 2007
On the other hand, Zaller said, the move - even if galleries and installations are recreated in a new, much larger museum on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway - will irrevocably alter the experience of viewing and studying Barnes's collection in what the painter Henri Matisse famously called "the only sane place to see art in America.". The two men have been staking out their positions for more than a year in the online arts and culture journal, The Broad Street Review. (Ardmore Main Line Life, PA)
Minimalist Flavin cast a lasting aura May 21, 2007
He was Matissean as well as Duchampian and revealed as much with a piece called untitled (to Henri Matisse) (1964). His four primary colors pink, yellow, blue and green create a lush vertical ray of color that shares Matisse's exuberance. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Eye on Art: Two new shows at PMA complement each other May 11, 2007
The Pensacola Museum of Art's current shows, "Impassioned Images: German Expressionist Prints" and "Henri Matisse: A Celebration of French Poets and Poetry" have an overlap that's unique for the Museum. Usually, the Museum's upstairs show has little to do with what's downstairs. (Pensacola News Journal)
Icon hits century mark May 2, 2007
1, 2007 08:37 AM Henri Matisse laughed when Pablo Picasso showed him the angular women staring out from the canvas of Les Demoiselles dAvignon. Matisse thought the painting was a joke. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Art world prepares for $1bn sales Apr 19, 2007
A Cezanne watercolour is estimated to make up to $18m (9m), while a reclining nude by Henri Matisse could fetch as much as $20m (10m) at the Sotheby's sale. Supremacy. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
In Music City, a stunning new symphony hall Apr 11, 2007
Beat goes on with Nashville's new symphony hall. By WILLIAM SCHEMMELFor the Journal-Constitution Published on: 04/ 00004000 11/07. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Austria tourist information facts Apr 10, 2007
The Lentos Kunstmuseum contains great artworks by Gustav Klimt, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol. The Ars Electronica centre, on the other hand, is a big hit with the kids with its virtual reality simulations and hi-tech displays. (Suite101.com)
Felix Bronner: biologist and painter Mar 24, 2007
The Daily: for The Scientist's daily e-mail. Atop the broad doorway of 's painting studio are three commands written on crisp white cards in thick black marker: "search," "investigate," and "stay with it." These are words for a scientist to live by, especially one who, like Bronner, has made significant contributions to his field. (The Scientist)
