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[French Fauvist Painter and Sculptor, 1869-1954]
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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.
Henri Matisse Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into these different tabs:
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Henri Matisse at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan 6 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW! Many works online
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Guggenheim Museum, New York City 2 works online
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia Henriette III, sculpture, 1929
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia 64 paintings, drawings and sculptures online
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia Dance
Matisse Museum, Nice, France
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Musée d'Orsay, Paris Artworks in the museum's collections database
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Olga Merson, 1911
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Backs I-IV
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Drawings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Illustration from Poesies, 1932 (In the "Etching" section)
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Includes biographical information about the artist
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK Portrait of Greta Moll
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Henri Matisse and the Fauves
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Henriette II (Large Head) Nude on a Yellow Sofa
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy (in Italian)  Donne sul sofà, 1921 N.B. The zoom-in feature ("esplora") only works with Internet Explorer
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio Young Girl Seated (La Biche)
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio Reclining Nude (Nu allonge), drawing
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
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 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
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
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW! Romanian Blouse, 1937
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
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 (Click on the title to see a specific work, then click on the image to enlarge) Still Life, 1907-08 The Pont Saint-Michel, Paris, 1903
Falmouth Art Gallery, England Coquelicots - Poppies
Goulandris Foundation Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros Island, Greece Some information about a 1988 exhibition
Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
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
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska Head of a Woman, 1917
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Kunsthaus Zurich
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland Alphabetically under "M"
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York Girl with a Tricorne (Vénitienne) Landscape
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Musée Cantini, Marseilles, France (in French)  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 2 works online
National Museum of Art of Romania The Romanian Blouse
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England Woman with Oriental Veil
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Femme au Chapeau, 1944
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian) 
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California Primavera (Spring), 1938
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida 2 prints online
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
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 NEW!
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California Pont Saint-Michel, ca.1901
Seattle Art Museum
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)  La Coiffure (The Coiffure)
State Museums of Berlin
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)  Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2003 exhibition
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) 
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 (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City Blue Interior with Two Girls, 1947
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada 4 works by Henri Matisse when last checked
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 Search results for "Henri Matisse"
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
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 American Art Museum National 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:
Henri Matisse Website about Henri Matisse and his artworks
Henri Matisse at The Athenaeum 33 works online by Matisse
Henri Matisse in the WebMuseum
Wikimedia Commons Image Database  Photograph of the artist
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bert Christensen's Cyberspace Home
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Henri Matisse at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish) 
Humanities Web
Henri Matisse at ImageNETion
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
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Olga's Gallery
PBase Photo Sharing (Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution) Jeannette IV, bronze sculpture, 1910-13
PBase Photo Sharing (Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution) Jeannette V, bronze sculpture, 1910-13
PBase Photo Sharing (Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution) Photographs from the Musee Matisse Cateau-Cambraisis
Rasiel's Wallpapers (Click on the size of the scan you wish to view)
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
The ArtFile
The Halter Collection
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
California Literary Review 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 (Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Unofficial Site for the Musée Matisse, Le Cateau, France (in French) 
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Henri Matisse  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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"
The Art Newspaper (Tip: Click "Zoom navigable", not the thumbnail, to get the largest image size) Fondation Beyeler visitors to observe restoration of Matisse's 1953 Acanthes
The Art Story
The Guardian Newspaper, UK Essay on Lydia Delectorskaya, 1947
The Guardian Newspaper, UK "Dream weaver", 2005 article by Adrian Searle
The London Evening Standard "Picasso and Matisse: no contest", 2002 article by Brian Sewell
The Magazine Antiques Image 10 in the slideshow is Les couscous, tapis bleu et rose, 1911
The New Criterion "Matisse the Master", book review by Hilton Kramer
The New York Observer "Meet the Meticulous Mob Of 'Wild Beast' Matisse", article by Hilton Kramer
The New York Observer "Matisse Collection At Morgan Library Best Show in Town", article by Hilton Kramer
The New York Observer "MoMA Extravaganza of Matisse-Picasso A Great Exhibition", article by Hilton Kramer
The New York Observer "Schmattes of Matisse: Painter Was Obsessed With Textile Design", article by Hilton Kramer
The New Yorker "Matisse Picasso" at MOMA, 2003 review by Peter Schjeldahl
The New Yorker "The Fabric of Art", brief 2005 review by Peter Schjeldahl
The New Yorker "A Life of Henri Matisse", 2005 book review by Peter Schjeldahl
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
The Village Voice "MOMA's Boys (Matisse/Picasso )", 2003 article by Jerry Saltz
Vanity Fair Magazine "Matisse's Missing Link", 2010 article by John Richardson
Vanity Fair Magazine "Between Picasso and Matisse", 2003 article by John Richardson
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