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Exhibition Leaflet Alongside the Pierre Matisse exhibition, discover 16 Henri Matisse masterpieces from the great Nahmad collection PRATICAL INFORMATION VILLA – LEVEL 0 (Jeune fi lle à la mauresque, robe verte) or the French Jacques Sobies (Nu au drapé), Georges ACCESS ACTIVITIES There are only a handful of collections that Renand (Nu au drapé; Jeune femme assise en 164, avenue des Arènes de Cimiez - 06000 Nice Guided tours of the museum and the exhibi- refl ect the full breadth of Henri Matisse’s practice robe grise), Marcel Kapferer (La Leçon de piano, Bus lines: 5, 16, 18, 33, 40, 70 tion, but also interactive tours for families and in existence ! Jeune fi lle à la mauresque, robe verte) and Henri Bus stop: Arènes / Musée Matisse workshops for children and adults. Canonne (Intérieur – porte ouverte). Portrait au The Musée Matisse is privileged to welcome manteau bleu, Nu aux jambes croisées and Fi- ________________________________________ Information : 16 paintings from the David and Ezra Nahmad gure assise et le torse grec belonged to the artist collection. These great art dealers and collectors himself then to his son Jean before he parted OPENING HOURS +33(0)4 93 81 08 08 have built this exceptional collection over the with them. Open daily except on Tuesdays [email protected] years. We would like to pay tribute to their Open from 10 am to 5 pm from November 1st musee-matisse-nice.org continued generosity in lending artworks to many This set of paintings has its own story and to April 30th French public institutions. raison d’être and is part of a larger collection of Open from 10 am to 6 pm from May 2nd ________________________________________ modern and impressionist artworks which could to October 31st These paintings, painted in Nice or in Vence, be the foundation of a formidable museum in its Musée Matisse Nice is on Instagram ! are shown alongside the museum’s perma- own right. Closed on January 1st, Easter Sunday, May 1st and Follow us and share your visit nent collection, providing a wide panorama of December 25th Matisse’s art. @museematissenice ________________________________________ #museematissenice Some of these paintings like La Leçon de piano #ExpoPierreMatisse (1923) or Jeune fi lle à la mauresque, robe verte (1921) are famous. Others are less well-known : FREE MUSEUM MOBILE APP, ________________________________________ the small Intérieur – porte ouverte painted in AUDIOGUIDE INCLUDED Etretat (1920-1921), Figure assise et le torse grec Download the museum free MUSEUM SHOP (1939) or La lecture painted in 1947. mobile app (available on App All these paintings were bought at public sales Store and Google play) and use in London, New York, Paris or Tokyo and were the audioguide ! part of renowned French or American private Selection of books and objects related to the collections. collections and the exhibition, on level -1 of the They often belonged to prominent collectors from museum the 1920s and 1930s such as the Americans John Or online on arteum.com Quinn (L’Artiste et le modèle nu) and Lillie Bliss ________________________________________ ________________________________________ WEBSITE www.musee-matisse-nice.org EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Engage with our collection online and get access Published by Bernard Chauveau, edited by Clau- Henri Matisse, Le repos de la danseuse, 1942, huile sur toile, 45,6 x 38 cm, to exclusive content dine Grammont coll. David et Ezra Nahmad Illustrated book of 184 pages – Only in French PIERRE © Succession H. Matisse / Photo : The Nahmad Collection Essays by Serena Bucalo-Mussely, Catherine Dossin, Fabrice Flahutez, Jack Flam, Claudine 11 JUNE > 30 SEPT. 2021 Grammont, Marianne Jakobi and Johanne MATISSE Lindskog 164, avenue des Arènes de Cimiez musee-matisse-nice.org AN ART DEALER Soutenu museematissenice IN NEW YORK © Ville des supports 2021 de Nice- Création librement - SF Mai inspirée de la Pierre éditoriaux Matisse Gallery © studio matters par Photo © François Fernandez © Succession H. Matisse pour les œuvres de l’artiste Hosting a major exhibition devoted to Pierre Ma- EXTENSION – LEVEL -1 VILLA – LEVEL 1 VILLA – LEVEL 1 VILLA – LEVEL 1 tisse (1900-1989), the Musée Matisse revisits the exceptional career of Henri Matisse’s youngest MATISSE ❶ 1931-1939 – A Modernist Gallery ❷ 1939-1945 - Artists in Exile ❸ 1946-1959 – Great Post-war Artists son, a New York art dealer and a key fi gure of the 20th century art world. The gallery built its reputation in a particularly After Europe went to war, Pierre Matisse cam- These years were marked by a shift in the ba- In 1949, Pierre Matisse curated his last exhi- diffi cult economic climate. Pierre Matisse showed paigned vigorously in favour of European Art the lance of power between Western Europe which bition on his father’s work. It’s one of the most works by artists such as André Derain, Raoul vitality of which served as a propaganda tool to was worn out by the war and the United States. resounding successes of the gallery’s history and Dufy, Marcel Gromaire, Georges Rouault, Giorgio defend freedom against the rise of fascism and Na- It established cultural hegemony while New testifi es to Pierre’s bold and thoughtful curatorial de Chirico or Jules Pascin. Henri Matisse’s art, zism. Since some of his artists’ works were stuck York became the new capital of the arts. The art approach. Showing 16 unframed recent paintings already represented in major American collec- in Europe, he tapped into the gallery’s collection or market thrived and became more and more com- from the series of the Vence interiors along with tions, formed the backbone of the gallery. His borrowed paintings to collectors, making sure his petitive which didn’t prevent the Pierre Matisse brush and ink drawings and a selection of cut- work was the subject of four shows at the gallery father, André Derain and Joan Miró stayed in the Gallery from remaining a bastion of European outs which had never been shown in the United Joan Miró, Palette : pour Pierre Matisse, compagnon de route, recto, 1972, States was a stroke of genius. huile sur bois, 19 × 26 cm, The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, New York in the mere fi rst decade of its existence. spotlight. Pierre Matisse also took part in different avant-garde art. © Successió Miró / Adagp, Paris, 2021 operations to rescue intellectuals and artists in Pierre Matisse continued to organise a Miró Photo : PTMF / D.R. In parallel, Pierre Matisse introduced to the fl ight from the Nazis and help them leave Europe. exhibition almost every year while being granted American public two strong and singular perso- In march 1942, the landmark exhibition Artists in exclusive rights to sell Jean Dubuffet and Alberto He supported individuals rather than movements nalities who were still unknown in the United- Exile assembled, around the leading fi gure of André Giacometti’s art in North America. The twelve Du- like fauvism, cubism, surrealism or the School States: Joan Miró and Balthus. Apart from these Breton, a number of exiled artists from the Parisian buffet exhibitions Pierre Matisse curated showed founding and long-lasting collaborations, he also avant-garde, the majority of which were surrealists. how his work remained outside the abstraction curated memorable exhibitions, notably the ones Pierre Matisse started representing new artists versus fi guration debate and was centred on devoted to André Masson (in 1932 and 1935) and which allowed him to remain relevant and to materiality, coinciding with the aspirations and one about Chirico’s metaphysical period (1935). harness the public’s appetite for novelty. Some investigations of the abstract expressionist were established artists like Marc Chagall whom painters. Concurrently Pierre Matisse introduced he exhibited once a year between 1941 and 1948 Giacometti’s sculpture to the New York art scene, or Yves Tanguy whose latest paintings he started organising three landmark exhibitions (1948, 1950 showing in 1939 after entering into an agreement : et 1958) that met with critical success. a monthly income in exchange of the entirety of the Pierre Matisse worked in close collaboration Vue de l’exposition d’Henri Matisse Paintings, Papiers Découpés, Drawings, Pierre Matisse, c. 1940 painter’s production. He also welcomed new sur- with these two artists whom he invited to partici- 1945-1948, 1949, coll. part. Photo : Archives Henri Matisse / D.R. The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, New York , 1947, huile, gravier et sable sur toile, realist fi gures who were close to André Breton, the pate in the creation of their catalogues, some of © Succession H. Matisse pour les œuvres de l’artiste © PTMF / Photo: Christopher Burke Chilean-born artist Roberto Matta whose large-for- which are noteworthy objects and have become mat paintings were exhibited fi ve times between invaluable references in their own right. ❹ 1960-1989 – A Recognised Gallery For about sixty years, the Pierre Matisse Gallery 1942 and 1945 as well as the Cuban painter Wifredo played a prominent role in the art world: it tire- Lam whose work he started to show in 1942. From 1970 onwards, the annual pace of the exhi- lessly championed French and European modern bitions slowed down. Pierre Matisse continued art in the United States during a key period which Vue de l’exposition African Sculptures from the Ratton Collection, 1935, Pierre Matisse, portrait obscur Pierre Matisse Gallery Archives, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York to show recent works by Miró, Giacometti and saw the formation of major private and institutio- © The Morgan Library & Museum. MA 5020. Gift of the Pierre Matisse Chagall but also by Jean-Paul Riopelle, a Cana- Foundation, 1997 nal American collections. The 300 or so exhibitions dian abstract artist who joined the gallery in 1954. organised at the gallery allowed a generation of Jean Dubuffet, 130 × 97,3 cm, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne-Centre de création AM 1991-296.
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