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I have painted almost 1,200 pictures. More than 2,500 of them are in the USA. -- Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse was the most important French painter of the 20th century, rivaling Picasso in his influence.
His background was diverse. He studied under Bouguereau and Gustave Moreau and experimented with Pointillism, which he found rigidly confining. Later, building on the work of Cézanne and Gauguin, he and Andre Derain developed Fauvism, a much freer and more expressive style of painting which was in fact the forerunner of Expressionism.
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Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Henri Matisse at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
15 works by Henri Matisse
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
64 paintings, drawings and sculptures online
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Dance
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Henriette III, sculpture, 1929
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Matisse Museum, Nice, France
Henri Matisse at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
4 works by Henri Matisse online
Henri Matisse at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
8 works by Henri Matisse online
Henri Matisse at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Still Life with Vegetables, 1905-06
Henri Matisse at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
View of Collioure and the Sea, 1907
Henri Matisse at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Laurette in a Green Robe, Black Background, 1916
Henri Matisse at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Seated Nude Asleep, woodcut, 1906
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
70 works by Henri Matisse online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Illustration from Poesies, 1932
(In the "Etching" section)
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
3 works online
Henri Matisse at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
8 works by Henri Matisse
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Henri Matisse and the Fauves
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Henriette II (Large Head)
Nude on a Yellow Sofa
National Gallery, London, UK NEW!
Portrait of Greta Moll
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy (in Italian) NEW! 
Donne sul sofà, 1921
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Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Young Girl Seated (La Biche)
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Reclining Nude (Nu allonge), drawing
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - Provenance Research
Jeannette V
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
Reclining Ballerina, 1927
Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
Purple Robe and Anemones, 1937
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
Untitled
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Information dossier on the artist
Céret Museum of Modern Art, France (in French)
Charleston, the country home of the Bloomsbury Group, East Sussex, England
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
Yellow Roses with Cage of Parakeets, 1924
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
8 works by or related to the artist
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Ivy in Flower, 1953
David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Several works online
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
(Click on the title to see a specific work, then click on the image to enlarge)
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
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Still Life, 1907-08
The Pont Saint-Michel, Paris, 1903
Falmouth Art Gallery, England NEW!
Coquelicots - Poppies
Goulandris Foundation Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros Island, Greece
Some information about a 1988 exhibition
Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel NEW!
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
2 works online
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Portrait of Alexina Matisse
Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
The Horse, the Rider, and the Clown
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
L'Asie (Asia)
Kunsthaus Zurich
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "M"
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Girl with a Tricorne (Vénitienne)
Landscape
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Nature morte aux oranges II (Still Life with Oranges II), ca.1899
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Musée Cantini, Marseilles, France (in French) NEW!
Académie d'homme
Musée de Grenoble, France (in French)
Nature Morte au Tapis Rouge
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris (in French)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)
Jazz
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)
Jeune femme en blanc, fond rouge (Modèle allongé, robe blanche)
Musee Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambresis, France (in French)
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
23 works by Matisse
Museums of Geneva, Switzerland (in French)
Information about a 2006 exhibition
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Museum of Art of Romania NEW!
The Romanian Blouse
National Museums and Galleries of Wales
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
Woman with Oriental Veil
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Laurette with Long Locks, 1916
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida - Provenance Research
Laurette with Long Locks
Portrait of Marguerite
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California NEW!
Primavera (Spring), 1938
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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6 works by Henri Matisse online
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida NEW!
2 prints online
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Red Fish, 1912
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Nature morte. Intérieur rouge de Venise
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Bathers with a Turtle, 1908
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
3 works online
San Diego Museum of Art, California
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Pont Saint-Michel, ca.1901
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Head of a Woman, Number 1, 1937
Seattle Art Museum
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
La Coiffure (The Coiffure)
State Museums of Berlin
2 artworks online
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Portrait of Madame Matisse. The Green Line, 1905
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2003 exhibition
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) NEW!
The Barnes Foundation, Pennsylvania
Joy of Life, 1905-06
The Coe College Permanent Collection of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Madame de Pompadour, detail
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City NEW!
Blue Interior with Two Girls, 1947
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Korsika, die alte Mühle, 1898
Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina, Greensboro
2 works online
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK NEW!
Search results for "Henri Matisse"
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas NEW!
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Danish Museums Online (in Danish)
(You can switch to English by going to the very top of the site, but the viewable works are much fewer)
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
CGFA
WebMuseum
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Photograph of the artist
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Artyst, Peintures du Monde (in French)
Artyzm
Bert Christensen's Cyberspace Home
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
Back I, II, III, IV
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
Unidentified painting (ship in canal), signed by Matisse
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
Scroll down for a work from the 2005 exhibition Masterpieces from the Guggenheim
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
La Danse
Olga's Gallery
PBase Photo Sharing
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Jeannette IV, bronze sculpture, 1910-13
PBase Photo Sharing
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Jeannette V, bronze sculpture, 1910-13
PBase Photo Sharing
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Photographs from the Musee Matisse Cateau-Cambraisis
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site NEW!
The ArtFile
The Halter Collection
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
Scroll down to signature 305
California Literary Review NEW!
Woman in Blue, 1937
FBI Art Theft Program
Luxembourg Garden, 1905, stolen from the Museu Chacara do Céu, Rio de Janeiro
Kilidavid
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Dancer in Repose, Print
The Modernist Journals Project
Unofficial Site for the Musée Matisse, Le Cateau, France (in French)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Henri Matisse 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Art + Auction Magazine
L'Odalisque, harmonie bleue, 1937
ARTnews
"Matisse and the Nun"
Brain-Juice - 20th Century Biographies
Frieze Magazine
"Matisse at the Modern -- Matisse at the Modern"
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Lydia Delectorskaya, 1947
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Meet the Meticulous Mob Of 'Wild Beast' Matisse
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Matisse Collection At Morgan Library Best Show in Town
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: MoMA Extravaganza of Matisse-Picasso A Great Exhibition
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Schmattes of Matisse: Painter Was Obsessed With Textile Design
The Telegraph Newspaper, UK
Kenneth Noland on Matisse's The Snail, 1953
The Telegraph Newspaper, UK
Richard Artschwager on Matisse's The Piano Lesson, 1916
Time Magazine
"Inventing a Sensory Utopia", 1986 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"A Domain of Light and Color: Matisse in Morocco", 1990 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"The Color of Genius", 1992 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Matisse: A Strange, Healing Calm", 1972 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"The Sultan and the Scissors: A dazzling show of Matisse cut-outs", 1977 article by Robert Hughes
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