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HENRI MATISSE: Rooms with a View

HENRI MATISSE: Rooms with a View SHIRLEY NEILSEN BLUM Book Number: 77731 Product format: Hardback The windows of a room have iconic significance in western art, often opening out into the world of the imagination or a distant spiritual realm. As Matisse moved towards the centre of European art, his style became more abstract but his vision of the domestic interior with the window as an anchor remained constant. The dark early interiors such as Studio Under the Eaves (1903) are relieved by the brightness of a view through a window, but under the influence of the Fauves his work soon exploded into vivid colour. The huge canvas Harmony in Red (1908) from this period displays a flattened perspective in which the red tablecloth and walls contrast with the green beyond the window. Matisse's decorative phase was more sombre, as in the subtle blues and greys of Goldfish and Palette of 1914, which uses the formal language of Cubism in a highly original way to create a window that is a complete abstraction. After World War I Matisse returned to Naturalism, and his interiors are now peopled with figures, for instance The Three O'Clock Sitting of 1924 where Matisse's model, Henriette Decarrere, paints her brother before an open window. See also Chapel of the Rosary (1947-51) and The Piano Lesson (1916). The years of World War II were intensely unhappy for Matisse, estranged from his wife and himself an invalid, but his final burst of artistic energy recalls the red interiors of his youth. The book concludes with Matisse's stained glass designs and wall decorations for the chapel at Vence. 192pp, 98 superb full page colour reproductions of the 129 included, authoritative text, chronology. 26 x 31.8cm. Published price: $60 Bibliophile price: £20.00