Matisse in the 1930s is on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through Jan. 29. The exhibit brings attention to an underseen decade of Matisse’s career and his patronage by Albert C. Barnes.
Living in Paris in the early 1900s, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso kept a close eye on each other’s revolutionary breaks with the past. Forging related but distinct paths, the friendly rivals went on to become arguably the most influential artists of the last century. Matisse expressed his distinct sensibility when in 1908 he wrote that he dreamed of “an art of balance, of purity and serenity.”
Collaboratively organized by PMA curator Matthew Affron, colleagues at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, and the Musée Matisse Nice, “Matisse in the 1930s” will next travel to Paris and Nice. Affron’s Philadelphia installation has the largest selection of art of its three venues.
His sensuous odalisques twist and stretch like saltwater taffy. Matisse draped their harem-like settings with vibrant, richly patterned textiles that bespeak colonialist stereotypes of the 1800s. On view are a series of sequenced photos Matisse took as he worked. They mark the first instance of his use of photography to record works in progress, a practice he would adopt as standard practice.
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