Henri Matisse as a novel

Henri Matisse, La Blouse roumaine, 1940, Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm.

Center Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris Gift of the artist to the State, 1953 Attribution, 1953 © Mnam-Cci / Georges Meguerditchian / Dist.

Rmn-Gp © Succession H. Matisse Photo © Center Pompidou, Mnam-Cci

By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

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He is a genius of color and painting of the twentieth century.

The Center Pompidou celebrates the work of Henri Matisse through a rich retrospective to be visited until February 22, 2021.

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The importance of an artist

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Henri Matisse

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is measured by the quantity of new signs that he will have introduced into visual language

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In fact, it is a great innovator, a tireless researcher and an enricher of techniques that the Center Georges Pompidou invites us to discover or rediscover through a major retrospective, 150 years after its birth.

More than 230 works, 70 documents and archives take us between painting, drawing and sculpture, between words and signs, between colors and light, over more than 6 decades, from 1890 to 1954. The “Matisse” exhibition , comme un roman ”is to be visited in Paris, until February 22, 2021.

And at the end of the show, 

Alain Pilot's music chronicle

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