78.7″x123.6″; gouache on paper, cut and pasted, mounted on canvas; 1946. Centre Pompidou, Paris, MNAM-CCI, from Mobilier national et Manufactures des Gobelins, de Beauvais et de la Savonnerie since 1975 AM 1975-DEP 13. © Succession H Matisse/Copyright Agency 2021. Photo: © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Bertrand Prévost / Dist RMN-GP
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Matisse: Life & Spirit, Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou, Paris
at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
20 November 2021-13 March 2022
This exhibition, exclusive to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, offers an extraordinary immersion in the range and depth of the art of Henri Matisse (1869–1954). Developed in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which holds an exceptional collection of works by the artist, “Matisse: Life & Spirit, Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou, Paris” is the greatest single exhibition of Matisse masterworks ever to be seen in Sydney.
Reaching from his early adventures in colour as a fauvist through to the serene and distilled designs for his chapel in Vence, the exhibition follows Matisse’s search across six decades. Through paintings, drawings, sculptures and his cut-outs, it reveals how Matisse renewed his vision time and again across his long career, seeking new ways of celebrating the seen world and expressing the energy he felt in it.
Blue Nude II (Nu bleu II) by Henri Matisse
50″x34″; gouache on paper, cut and pasted on paper, mounted on canvas; 1952. Centre Pompidou, Paris, MNAM-CCI, purchased 1984 AM 1984-276. © Succession H Matisse/Copyright Agency 2021. Photo: © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Service de la documentation photographique du MNAM / Dist RMN-GP
Highlights include the especially important early work Le Luxe I (1907); the mid-career masterpiece Decorative figure on an ornamental ground (1925); and the majestic self-portrait The sorrow of the king (1952), one of the largest of the famous cut-outs that the artist created in his late career.
(Text adapted from materials provided by the gallery.)
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