Matisse’s palette at the Matisse museum in Le Cateau-Cambrésis
The Fauvists:
Henri Matisse, Andre Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Kees van Dongen, Henri Charles Manguin, Georges Rouault
“Henri Matisse and André Derain introduced unnaturalistic color and vivid brushstrokes into their paintings in the summer of 1905, working together in the small fishing port of Collioure on the Mediterranean coast. When their pictures were exhibited later that year at the Salon d’Automne in Paris, they inspired the witty critic Louis Vauxcelles to call them fauves (“wild beasts”) in his review.” src
Matisse, 1948
Matisse in his studio at Collioure in 1907, with his wife Amélie and his daughter Marguite. Behind Matisse is Le Luxe I.
Matisse arriving in New York City on the S. S. Mauretania, December 15, 1930.
Matisse with his wife Amélie Parayre
Matisse was so committed to his art that he extended a warning to his fiancée, Amélie: “I love you dearly, mademoiselle; but I shall always love painting more.”
Henri Matisse in his studio, villa des Plantes, Paris; working on “Nude with reading light”, 1939. Photo by Gyula Halasz
