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Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954)

LOT ID: 63180

Trois Têtes, a l'amitié , 1951

Aquatint

13.6 х 10.9 in. cm.

Unsigned

Edition Proof aside from the edition of 25.

Lot description

Aquatint on pale cream wove Arches paper. Trial proof, aside from the edition of 25. From Apollinaire. A very good impression.

Biography & Links
Henri Matisse Biography

1869	Born: Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France

1882-1887	Attended the College de Saint-Quentin and the Lycée Henri- Martin at Saint-Quentin, France

1887-1889	Studied law in Paris, France

1889	Studied drawing at the municipal Ecole Quentin de La Tour, a school of décorative arts, Saint-Quentin, France

1891	Studied at the Academy Julien with Gabriel Ferrier and Adolphe-W. Bouguereau

1892	Studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France

1895	Entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France

1896	Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France

1905	Worked with André Derain in the little coastal town of Collioure, France

1927	Won first prize at Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, PA

1950	Won Grand Prize at the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

1952	Matisse museum is inaugurated, Le Cateau-Cambresis, France

1954	Died:Cimiez, France
Selected Exhibitions

1896	Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France

1897	Salon of the Nationale, Paris, France

1901	Salon des Indépendants, Paris, France

1902	Berthe Weill Gallery, Paris, France

1903	Salon d' Automne, Paris, France

1905	Salon des Indépendants, Paris, France

1906	Galerie Druet, Paris, France (solo) Salon des Indépendants, Paris, France

1908	291 gallery, New York, NY Salon d' Automne, Paris, France

1910	Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, Paris, France (solo) 291 gallery, New York, NY

1913	Armory Show, New York, NY Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, Paris, France (solo)

1914	Gurlitt Gallery, Berlin, Germany

1915	Montross Gallery, New York, NY

1919	Leicester Galleries, London, UK Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, Paris, France (solo)

1920	Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, Paris, France

1921	Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, Paris, France

1924	Retrospective, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo) Retrospective, Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, Paris, France (solo)

1927	Valentine Dudensing Gallery, New York, NY

1930	Retrospective, Thannhauser Gallery, Berlin, Germany (solo)

1931	Retrospective, Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, France (solo) Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland The Museum of Modem Art, New York, NY

1936	Paul Rosenberg Gallery, Paris, France

1945	Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK Retrospective, Salon d' Automne, Paris, France (solo) Galerie Maeght, Paris, France

1948	Retrospective, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (solo)

1949	Pierre Matisse gallery, New York, NY Musée National d' Art Moderne, Paris, France (solo)

1951	Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)

1953	Berggruen et Cie, Paris, France (solo) Retrospective, The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo)

1966	Matisse und seine Freunde – les Fauves - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

1981	Medio Siglo de Escultura: 1900-1945, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain (solo)

1985	Les vingt ans du Musée à travers sa collection, Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada

1987	The Window in Twentieth-Century Art - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX

1993	Modern Masters and the Figure: Picasso to de Kooning - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

1996	Master Classes: What classifies an artist as a Master, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Museum, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Manet bis Van Gogh - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany

1997	L'última mirada, Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona, Spain Encounters With Modern Art: Works from the Rothschild Family Collections, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA Etchings of the Twentieth Century, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY

1998	Recent Acquisitions and New Work, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA Von Matisse bis Dali. Die Kunst zu Sammeln - Das Legat Georges F. Keller, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland Au fil du trait : de Matisse à Basquiat - Carré d´art, Musée d´art contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes, France The Origins of Modern Art in France - 1880-1939, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Master Drawings of the Twentieth Century, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY Artists and Subjects: Picasso to Stella, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1999	Matisse and Picasso, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX The Elise S. Haas Collection - Matisse and Other Modern masters, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA Do impresionismo ao Fauvismo. Colección Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

2000	Master-Prints, Fischer Kunsthandel & Edition, Berlin, Germany Matisse: The Art of Drawing, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia (solo) Matisse from The Baltimore Museum of Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (solo) Face to Face: Artists & Their Work, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA Painters in Paris: 1895-1950, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

2001	The Kindness of Friends: A Selection of Gifts of Drawings and Prints, 1919-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Matisse: Espíritu y Sentido, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain (solo) Neo-Impressionism: The Circle of Paul Signac, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Grands maîtres des XIXe et XXe siècles, Galerie Schmit, Paris, France The Global Guggenheim: Selections from the Extended Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

2002	Henri Matisse. Mit der Schere zeichnen, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main, Gremany (solo) Millet to Matisse, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY Modigliani & the Artists of Montparnasse, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Gauguin to Matisse: French Masterpieces from Russias Hermitage Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Henri Matisse, Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao, Spain; Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany (solo) From Puvis de Chavannes to Matisse and Picasso, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy Matisse and Belfast, Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland (solo) Henri Matisse/Ellsworth Kelly: dessins de plantes, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France

2003	Henri Matisse, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain (solo) Henri Matisse: Prints and Bronzes, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (solo) Old Masters, Impressionists & Moderns: French Masterworks from the Pushkin Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Classic to Modern: French Works on Paper, 1800-1950, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Matisse: Papiers découpés, Sammlung Berggruen, Berlin, Germany (solo) Voyage into Myth: Gauguin to Matisse, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Quebec, Canada Masterworks from El Greco to Picasso in The Phillips Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

2004	Fauve Painting in the Permanent Collection, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Renoir to Matisse: The Eye of Duncan Phillips, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Matisse, Picasso: Lithographs & Etchings, Catherine Hodgkinson, London, UK The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (solo) Henri Matisse, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)

2005	MATISSE &, Statens museum for kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo) Henri Matisse: Une Seconde Vie, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, LA (solo) Matisse, His Art and His Textiles: The Fabric of Dreams, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (solo) Hommage à Matisse, Artiscope, Brussels, Belgium (solo) Henri Matisse: Prints and Bronzes from the Claribel and Etta Cone Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (solo) Masterworks from The Phillips Collection, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

2006	Picasso Matisse: Prints and Drawings, Andipa gallery, London, UK La Danza delle Avanguardie, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy Tapestries, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL Matisse: A Figurative Femininity, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (solo) Stock 06/07/2006, Waddington Galleries, London, UK Modern and Contemporary Masters, Richard Gray Gallery, New York, NY French Master Drawings: From Manet and Degas to Matisse and Picasso, Statens museum for kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark Matisse: Jazz, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (solo)

2007	Matisse - Painter as Sculptor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (solo) Henri Matisse - Prints and Bronzes from the Permanent Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (solo) Henri Matisse - The Thousand and One Nights, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA (solo) Picasso & Matisse, Andipa Gallery, London, UK

2007-2008	Matisse : en pensant à René Char, Musée Henri Matisse, Nice, France (solo)

2008	Henri Matisse: Prints and Bronzes from the Etta and Claribel Cone Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (solo)

2009	Matisse – Rodin, un parcours sans fin, Musée Henri Matisse, Nice, France (solo) L’objet dans l’œuvre de Matisse, Musée Henri Matisse, Nice, France (solo)

2010	Les photographes de Matisse, nouvelles acquisitions, Les photographies de Matisse à Tahiti, Musée Henri Matisse, Nice, France (solo)

	SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

	The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Tate Britain, London, UK Tate Modern, London, UK Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France Musée d´Orsay, Paris, France Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France Musée National de l´Orangerie, Paris, France The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Literature

1979	Gowing, Lawrence. Matisse. New York, Oxford University Press, 1979

1984	Schneider, Pierre. Matisse. New York, Rizzoli, 1984

1998	Spurling, Hilary Spurling. The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse, Vol. 1, 1869-1908. London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1998

2005	Spurling, Hilary. Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse, Vol. 2, The Conquest of Colour 1909 - 1954. London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 2005

2006	Wright, Alastair. Matisse and the Subject of Modernism Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2006

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