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| HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954) French painter, graphic artist, designer and sculptor. Matisse, along with Picasso, was the foremost painter of the 1920s, admired for his sensitivity of line and the beauty of his palette. Moving from Impressionism to Neo-Impressionism to Fauvism, Matisse lived through poverty and immense wealth to become a patronised and revered painter of much importance. His work was joyous, and Matisse was, in his old-age, advised by his doctors to wear dark glasses as the colours in his palette were so bright. Matisse also ran an art school in Paris from 1907 to 1911, and is now represented in most important modern art collections around the globe, where his art seeks to be a ‘comforting influence, a mental balm’ in the turbulent society in which he worked. |
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