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List of illustrations

  • Photomaton
  • Henri IV Receiving the Portrait of Maria de' Medici
  • Poster Portrait: Marin
  • Woman with a Cat: Cryptic Portrait of Paul Eluard
  • Four Self-Portraits
  • Baldassare Castiglione
  • Baldassare Castiglione
  • Joanna of Aragon
  • Madame Moitessier
  • Woman in Blue
  • The Little Boston Girl (Annie Petron)
  • Marguerite
  • Young Capella
  • Woman Reading
  • Still Life with Self-Portrait
  • Interior with a Top Hat
  • Profile of a Woman
  • Self-Portrait
  • Self-Portrait with Pipe
  • Photograph of Matisse at the time of his marriage
  • Self-Portrait
  • Self-Portrait
  • Self-Portrait
  • Self-Portrait
  • Self-Portrait
  • Self-Portrait
  • Self-Portrait, Sketching
  • Self-Portrait, Sketching
  • Self-Portrait
  • Self-Portrait in a Wig
  • Self-Portrait as an Etcher
  • Self-Portrait with Palette
  • Self-Portrait at the Easel
  • Self-Portrait at the Easel
  • Carmelina
  • Landscape, Saint-Tropez
  • Amélie Matisse
  • Madame Matisse Feeding Jean
  • Madame Matisse en japonaise (Japanese Lady)
  • The Guitarist
  • Woman with a Shawl
  • Woman in a Japanese Robe beside the Water
  • Madame Matisse, Rocks
  • Madame Matisse Seated (Collioure)
  • L'Illustration
  • Femme au chapeau (Woman with a Hat)
  • The Countress of Noidans
  • Willem Coymans
  • Madame Valat
  • Woman at the Rat Mort
  • Portrait of Madame Matisse: The Green Line
  • The Red Madras Headdress
  • Gertrude Stein
  • Fang Mask
  • Portrait of the Artist's Wife
  • The Artist's Family, Collioure
  • Conversation
  • The Family
  • The Painter's Family
  • The Music Lesson
  • Girl Reading
  • Marguerite Reading
  • Head of a Young Girl
  • Marguerite
  • Marguerite with a Black Cat
  • Tete blanche et rose
  • Mlle Matisee in a Scotch Plaid Coat
  • Pierre Matisse
  • The Piano Lesson
  • Violinist
  • Violinist at the Window
  • Jackie
  • Jacky
  • Matisse's bedroom at the Hotel Regina, Nice
  • The ceiling of Matisse's bedroom at the Hotel Regina with the portraits he made of three of his grandchildren
  • Claude
  • Marquet Painting a Nude
  • Maurice de Vlaminck
  • Andre Derain
  • Henri Matisse
  • André Derain
  • Albert Marquet
  • The Painter Albert Marquet
  • Terrus at Collioure
  • The Painter Etienne Terrus
  • Head of a Child (Pierre Manguin)
  • Jeanne Manguin
  • Nono (Mlle Lebasque)
  • Self-Portrait
  • Self-Portrait with Palette
  • Self-Portrait in a Striped Jersey
  • Walter Pack
  • Marguerite Matisse
  • Massia with Flowered Background
  • Eva Mudocci
  • Josette Gris
  • Double Portrait of Josette Gris
  • Léonide Massine
  • The Painter Pallady
  • Simon Bussy
  • André Rouveyre
  • Henry de Montherlant
  • Henry de Montherlant
  • Louis Aragon
  • Paul Léautaud
  • Portraits of Louis Aragon
  • Study for Guillaume Apollinaire
  • Guillaume Apollinaire
  • Three Heads (To Friendship)
  • Allan Stein
  • Boy with a Butterfly Net (Allan Stein)
  • Greta Moll
  • Woman and Child with a Dog
  • Greta Moll
  • The Girl With Green Eyes
  • Olga Merson
  • Girl with Tulips (Jeanne Vaderin)
  • Girl with Tulips (Jeanne Vaderin)
  • Sergei I. Shchukin
  • Harriet Lane Levy
  • Yvonne Landsberg
  • Yvonne Landsberg
  • Mlle Yvonne Landsberg
  • Yvonne Landsberg
  • Greta Prozor
  • Greta Prozor
  • Michael Stein
  • Sarah Stein
  • Study for "Sarah Stein"
  • Auguste Pellerin I
  • Auguste Pellerin II
  • Portrait of Gustave Geffroy
  • Cézanne in front of "The Large Bathers" in his studio at Les Lauves
  • Photograph of Michael Stein with portraits of him paintied by Leo Stein
  • Portrait of Madame Cézanne
  • George Besson I
  • George Besson II
  • Self-Portrait
  • John Dewey
  • Dr. Claribel Cone
  • Dr. Claribel Cone
  • Etta Cone
  • Maud Dale
  • Dorothy Paley
  • Self-Portrait
  • Self-Portrait
  • H. Matisse by Himself
  • Two Portraits and a Moroccan Landscape
  • Postcard of Blois with self-portrait
  • Postcard of Blois with self-portrait
  • Self-portrait
  • Periodical
  • Periodical
  • Self-portrait
  • Self-portrait
  • Self-portrait
  • Self-portrait
  • Interior with a Phonograph
  • Henri-Matisse
  • Interior with Self-Portrait
  • Henri-Matisse
  • Self-portrait
  • Henri-Matisse
  • Self-portrait
  • Self-portrait
  • Self-portrait
  • Self-portrait
  • Self-Portrait
  • Self-portrait with Straw Hat
  • Photograph of the first state of fig. 168
  • Photograph of the second state of fig. 168
  • Photograph of the third state of fig. 168
  • Self-portrait
  • Self-portrait
  • Self-portrait
  • Self-portrait
  • Self-portrait
  • Self-portrait
  • Letter from Matisse to George Besson
  • Self-portrait
  • Georges Demotte
  • Tea
  • Young Women in the Garden
  • The Italian Woman
  • Laurette
  • Laurette with Turban, Yellow Jacket
  • The White Plumes
  • The Plumed Hats
  • Young Woman in Pink
  • The Baroness Gourgaud
  • The Embroidered Dark Blouse (Woman in a Red Chair)
  • Head Tilted Slightly to the Left
  • Woman on a High Stool (Germain Raynal)
  • Seated Nude (Olga)
  • Jeannette I-V
  • Madame L. D., Green, Blue, and Yellow Portrait
  • Woman in a Hood
  • The Rumanian Blouse
  • Lydia Delectorskaya in the "Harlequin" dress from Matisse's collection of dresses for models
  • Artist and Model Reflected in the Mirror
  • Artist and Model Reflected in the Mirror
  • L. D. at work
  • Lydia Delectorskaya erasing an early state of "Large Reclining Nude"
  • Massia with an Elongated Face
  • The Plumed Hat
  • Themes et variations: Series O, "dessin du theme
  • Themes et variations, O 2
  • Large Decoration with Masks
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Description: Matisse Portraits
In the art of Henri Matisse we have one of the great sustained responses to some of the strongest challenges to painting during the last two hundred years. His art, though innovative, was also fiercely resistant to things outside its scope. Against the call to political engagement he created private worlds of sensation. To the apparently mechanistic photograph he...
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The title of this chapter refers to one of Matisse’s famous verbal formulations, in which he spoke of the importance of the “eternal conflict of drawing and color” in an artist. The possibility of resolving this...
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Matisse made few portraits in the 1890s, the first decade of his career, when still life, landscape, and interior scenes dominated his art. Portraiture is not often a pursuit of youth. It is dutiful, and does not seem reflexive enough to...
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We have seen the analogy Matisse made between artistic and genetic creation, and it should be no surprise that his principal field of inscription for this analogy was his own family. Although the drawing of his mother that prompted the...
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During the first five years of the century, when his family had become an important theme in his art, Matisse aligned himself with another key group, the avant-garde in France. His emerging consciousness of his position among his contemporaries was briefly but significantly expressed in portraiture, in striking...
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Unlike family members or sympathetic fellow artists, all with ready-made allegiances, portrait sitters with a more detached professional or social relationship to the artist implicitly make greater demands for themselves. This challenge to his autonomy was felt acutely by Matisse. In the transaction of portraits with...
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In Chapter 2, I considered traditional modes of self-portraiture and the way in which Matisse’s early works in this genre fulfill many conventional expectations even as they reveal a singular and probing artistic personality. Most of these works – those grouped around 1900 – may be understood as a collective act of self-determination as Matisse...
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The portrait of Georges Demotte (fig. 179) from 1918 occupies a transitional place in Matisse’s portraiture overall, but it nearly brought to a close his activity as a portrait painter...
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In his essay “Portraits” from 1954, written to accompany the selection of his paintings and drawings of the human face and figure published that year, Matisse gave the fullest description of his working procedure when drawing from the model...
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