Matisse

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This is something I don't want to miss, which means a trip to Brisbane might be 

coming up soon (a good chance to catch up with Andrew's sister's family):

Queensland Art Gallery - Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) presents

Matisse: Drawing Life

3 December 2011 – 4 March 2012 | Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) Brisbane

Every day, Henri Matisse drew from life. And what he drew from his art was life itself.

‘Matisse: Drawing Life’ is the most comprehensive exhibition of Henri Matisse’s prints and drawings 

ever mounted. Presented in partnership with the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the exhibition 

includes more than 300 drawings, prints and illustrated books by one of the twentieth century’s 

greatest artists. Exploring the themes and subjects to which Matisse repeatedly turned throughout 

his long career, the exhibition provides insights into the artist’s daily drawing practice.

Curated exclusively for GOMA by Céline Chicha-Castex, Curator of Modern and Contemporary 

Prints, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and independent Paris-based curator Emilie Ovaere-

Corthay, the exhibition brings together works from international, national and private collections to 

explore the extraordinary range and depth of Matisse’s engagement with the graphic mark.

These images below I selected for this post from various books are not necessarily in the exhibition.

Henri Matisse
Self Portrait, 1912-13
Pen and ink, 21 x 13.5 cm
Private collection.

Henri Matisse
Hélène with a Cabochon, 1937
Oil on canvas, 55 x 33 cm
Private collection.

Henri Matisse
The Plant/Pot of Begonias, 1938
Linoleum cut, 20.1 x 23 cm
Bibliothèque nationale, Paris

Henri Matisse
Zulma, 1950
Cutout

Henri Matisse
Forms: White torso and blue torso, 1944
Illustration for Jazz.

Henri Matisse
Apples, 1916
Oil on canvas, 116.8 x 89.4 cm
The Art Institute of Chicago

Henri Matisse
"Mes courbes ne sont pas folles..." (My curves are not crazy...)
Handwritten text by Matisse accompanying the illustrations of Jazz.

A detail of a Brassaï photograph of 1939:
Matisse and his model, W.J., a young Hungarian woman,
in the studio on the Rue des plantes, Paris.