Henri Matisse | Legacy / L'eredità

The first painting of Henri Matisse🎨 (31 December 1869 - 3 November 1954) acquired by a public collection was Still Life with Geraniums (1910), exhibited in the Pinakothek der Moderne.

Today, a Matisse painting can fetch as much as US $17 million.

In 2002, a Matisse sculpture, Reclining Nude I (Dawn), sold for US $9.2 million, a record for a sculpture by the artist.

Matisse's daughter Marguerite often aided Matisse scholars with insights about his working methods and his works. She died in 1982 while compiling a catalog of her father's work.

Matisse's son, Pierre Matisse, (1900-1989) opened an important modern art gallery in New York City during the 1930s.

The Pierre Matisse Gallery which was active from 1931 until 1989 represented and exhibited many European artists and a few Americans and Canadians in New York often for the first time.

He exhibited Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, André Derain, Yves Tanguy, Le Corbusier, Paul Delvaux, Wilfredo Lam, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Balthus, Leonora Carrington, Zao Wou Ki, Sam Francis, sculptors Theodore Roszak, Raymond Mason and Reg Butler, and several other important artists, including the work of Henri Matisse.

Henri Matisse's grandson, Paul Matisse, is an artist and inventor living in Massachusetts.

Matisse's great granddaughter Sophie Matisse is active as an artist in 2008.

Il primo dipinto di Matisse acquisito da una collezione pubblica era Still Life with Geraniums (1910), esposto nella Pinakothek der Moderne.

Oggi, un dipinto di Matisse può arrivare fino a 17 milioni di dollari.

Nel 2002, una scultura di Matisse, Reclining Nude I (Dawn), ha venduto per US $ 9,2 milioni, un record per una scultura dell'artista.

La figlia di Matisse, Marguerite, spesso aiutava gli studiosi di Matisse a comprendere i suoi metodi di lavoro e le sue opere. Morì nel 1982 mentre compilava un catalogo del lavoro di suo padre.

Il figlio di Matisse, Pierre Matisse, (1900-1989) aprì un'importante galleria d'arte moderna a New York negli anni '30.

La Galleria Pierre Matisse, attiva dal 1931 al 1989, rappresentava e esponeva per la prima volta molti artisti europei e pochi americani e canadesi a New York.

Ha esposto Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, André Derain, Yves Tanguy, Le Corbusier, Paul Delvaux, Wilfredo Lam, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Balthus, Leonora Carrington, Zao Wou Ki, Sam Francis, scultori Theodore Roszak, Raymond Mason e Reg Butler e molti altri artisti importanti, tra cui il lavoro di Henri Matisse.

Il nipote di Henri Matisse, Paul Matisse, è un artista e inventore che vive in Massachusetts. La pronipote di Matisse Sophie Matisse è attiva come artista nel 2008.

El Greco | Life and Artworks

El Greco, byname of Doménikos Theotokópoulos (born 1541, Candia [Iráklion], Crete-died April 7, 1614, Toledo, Spain), master of Spanish painting, whose highly individual dramatic and expressionistic style met with the puzzlement of his contemporaries but gained newfound appreciation in the 20th century. He also worked as a sculptor and as an architect.

El Greco never forgot that he was of Greek descent and usually signed his paintings in Greek letters with his full name, Doménikos Theotokópoulos. He is, nevertheless, generally known as El Greco ("the Greek"), a name he acquired when he lived in Italy, where the custom of identifying a man by designating country or city of origin was a common practice.

he curious form of the article (El), however, may be the Venetian dialect or more likely from the Spanish.

John Constable RA | Romantic painter

John Constable (1776-1837) is famous for his landscapes, which are mostly of the Suffolk countryside, where he was born and lived.

He made many open-air sketches, using these as a basis for his large exhibition paintings, which were worked up in the studio.

His pictures are extremely popular today, but they were not particularly well received in England during his lifetime.

He did, however, have considerable success in Paris.

Constable was born in East Bergholt, Suffolk.

He was largely self-taught, and developed slowly.

In 1799 he was a probationer, and in 1800 a student at the Royal Academy schools.