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Exhibition Review
Monet and London: Views of the Thames Monet and the Impressionist Cityscape
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 32-4
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Reviewer:
Thomson, Richard (Thomson, Richard)
Subjects
artists:
Monet, Claude / Jongkind, Johann Barthold / Meryon, Charles / Pissarro, Camille / Luce, Maximilien / Matisse, Henri
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, Great Britain / Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
places:
London / Paris
subjects:
French art / Cityscapes / Impressionism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Monet and the Impressionist Cityscape Edited by Ralph Gleis and Josephine Hein. 120 pp. incl. 82 col. + b. & w. ills. (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Hirmer, Munich, 2024), £29.95. ISBN 978–3774–4404–9. | :
subjects:
Monet and London: Views of the Thames Courtauld Gallery, London 27th September 2024–19th January 2025 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Waterloo bridge, effet de soleil (sunlight effect), by Claude Monet. 1903. Oil on canvas, 73.8 by 98.1 cm. (Milwaukee Art Museum; exh. Courtauld Gallery, London).
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2. Charing Cross Bridge, la Tamise (the Thames), by Claude Monet. 1903. Oil on canvas, 73.4 by 100.3 cm. (Musée des Beaux- Arts, Lyon; exh. Courtauld Gallery, London).
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3. Quai du Louvre, by Claude Monet. 1867. Oil on canvas, 65.1 by 92.6 cm. (Kunstmuseum Den Haag; exh. Nationalgalerie, Berlin).
Article
Unclogging the eye: Matisse, the ‘Joy of life’ and ‘Japonisme’
12/2024 | 1461 | 166
Pages: 1222–1229
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Author:
Holland, Nicole M. (Holland, Nicole M.)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Stein, Gertrude / Stein, Leo / Barnes, Albert C.
dates:
1900-1909
styles:
Fauvism
subjects:
French painting / Japanese prints / Japonisme / Collecting
works:
Matisse, Henri / Utagawa Kunisada, 1786-1864
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. La Japonaise: woman beside the water, Collioure, by Henri Matisse. 1905. Oil and pencil on canvas, 35 by 28 cm. (© Succession H. Matisse; DACS, London; Photo Scala Florence; Museum of Modern Art, New York).
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2. Joy of life, by Henri Matisse. 1905–06. Oil on canvas, 176.5 by 240.7 cm. (© Succession H. Matisse; DACS, London; Bridgeman Images; Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia).
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3. French painter Henri Matisse at his home, villa ‘Le Rêve’, by Henri Cartier-Bresson. February 1944. Photograph. (© Henri Cartier-Bresson; Magnum Photos).
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4. Paris: les bouquinistes, le long des quais, by Yvon. c.1945. Photograph, 22.2 by 27.3 cm. (Private collection; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
5. Luxe, calme et volupté, by Henri Matisse. 1904. Oil on canvas, 98 by 112 cm. (© Succession H. Matisse; DACS, London; RMN-Grand Palais; Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France).
Attributed works:
6. Memorial portrait of Utagawa Kunisada, by Kunisada II (Toyokuni IV). 1865. Colour woodblock print, 37.2 by 25.4 cm. (Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Bridgeman Images).
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7. Goten’yama, from the series One hundred beautiful women at famous places in Edo, by Utagawa Kunisada. 1858. Ink and colour on paper, 37 by 25.1 cm. (Tokyo Metro Library).
Attributed works:
8. The dessert: harmony in red (the red room), by Henri Matisse. 1908. Oil on canvas, 180 by 220 cm. (© Succession H. Matisse; DACS London; State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).
Exhibition Review
Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso: The Invention of Language
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 84–87
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Reviewer:
Loreti, Silvia (Loreti, Silvia)
Subjects
artists:
Picasso, Pablo / Braque, Georges / Gris, Juan / Matisse, Henri / Warhol, Andy / Paik, Nam June / Stieglitz, Alfred / Duchamp, Marcel / Van Vechten, Carl / Ligon, Glenn
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France
subjects:
Stein, Gertrude / Patronage / Collecting / Language / Aesthetics / French art / American art / Music
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso: The Invention of Language Musée du Luxembourg, Paris 13th September 2023– 28th January 2024 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
26. Gertrude Stein, by Andy Warhol. 1980. Acrylic and screen print on canvas, 101.9 by 101.9 cm. (Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York, and ADAGP, Paris; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; exh. Musée du Luxembourg, Paris).
Attributed works:
27. Gertrude Stein, by Nam June Paik. 1990. Antique television monitors, mixed media and video, 248.9 by 195.9 by 94 cm. (Nam June Paik Estate; courtesy James Cohan Gallery, New York; exh. Musée du Luxembourg, Paris).
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28. “Untitled” (Alice B. Toklas’ and Gertrude Stein’s Grave, Paris), by Felix Gonzalez- Torres. 1992. Chromogenic print pasted on cardboard, 12 by 17.8 cm. (Estate of Felix Gonzalez- Torres; private collection; photograph Suzanne Nagy).
Exhibition Review
Matisse, Derain, and Their Friends: The Parisian Avant-Garde 1904–1908
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 81–84
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Reviewer:
Deltour, Louis (Deltour, Louis)
Subjects
artists:
Matisse, Henri / Derain, André / Marquet, Albert / Camoin, Charles / Vlaminck, Maurice de / Dufy, Raoul / Braque, Georges / Delaunay, Robert, 1885-1941 / Delaunay, Sonia
artists:
Bailly, Alice / Charmy, Emilie 1878–1974
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
styles:
Fauvism
Reviewed Items
styles:
Matisse, Derain, and Their Friends: The Parisian Avant- Garde 1904–1908 Kunstmuseum, Basel 2nd September 2023– 21st January 2024 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
23. Posters in Trouville, by Albert Marquet. 1906. Oil on canvas, 65.1 by 81.3 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington; exh. Kunstmuseum, Basel).
Attributed works:
24. Installation view of Matisse, Derain and Friends: The Paris Avantgarde 1904–1908 at Kunstmuseum, Basel, 2023. (Photograph Max Ehrengruber).
Attributed works:
25. Regent Street, London, by André Derain. 1906. Oil on canvas, 66 by 99.4 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; exh. Kunstmuseum, Basel).
Exhibition Review
The Morozov Collection: Icons of Modern Art
02/2022 | 1427 | 164
Pages: 204-206
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Reviewer:
Blakesley, Rosalind P. (Blakesley, Rosalind P.)
Subjects
artists:
Serov, Valentin / Gogh, Vincent van / Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de / Gallen-Kallela, Akseli / Munch, Edvard / Korovin, Konstantin / Matisse, Henri / Denis, Maurice / Renoir, Pierre-Auguste / Manet, Edouard / Picasso, Pablo / Gauguin, Paul / Cézanne, Paul / Goncharova, Natalia / Malevich, Kazimir
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France / Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia / Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia / Gosudarstvennaja Tretjakovskaja Galerja (State Tretyakov Gallery), Moscow, Russia
patrons:
Morozov, Ivan
subjects:
Collections / Russian painting / French art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Morozov Collection: Icons of Modern Art Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris 22nd September 2021– 22nd February 2022 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
23. Ivan Abramovitch Morozov, Moscow, 1910, by Valentin Serov. 1910. Tempera on cardboard, 63.5 by 77 cm. (State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; exh. Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris).
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24. The cork or Country inn (La Guinguette), by Édouard Manet. c.1878. Oil in canvas, 72.4 by 92 cm. (Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; exh. Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris).
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25. Bathers, by Paul Cézanne. 1892–94. Oil on canvas, 26 by 40 cm. (Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; exh. Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris).
Exhibition Review
Die Fäden der Moderne: Matisse, Picasso, Miró und die französischen Gobelins
05/2021 | 1418 | 163
Pages: 457-459
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Reviewer:
Neumann-Golle, Antje (Neumann-Golle, Antje)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
artists:
Picasso, Pablo / Matisse, Henri / Delaunay, Sonia / Bourgeois, Louise / Miró, Joan / Chillida, Eduardo / Le Corbusier / Léger, Fernand / Vasarely, Victor de / Lurçat, Jean
museums and institutions:
Galerie des Gobelins, Paris, France / Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany / Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Netherlands
subjects:
Tapestry (process) / Tapestries / Gobelins Manufactory / Beauvais Tapestry Manufactory / Savonnerie manufactory
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Die F den der Moderne: Matisse, Picasso, Mir  und die franz sischen Gobelins Edited by Roger Diederen. 216 pp. incl. 140 col. ills. (Hirmer, Munich, 2020), €39.90. ISBN 978–3–7774–3456–8. | :
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Attributed works:
10. Women at their toilette, by Pablo Picasso. Gobelins tapestry, designed 1937, second version in colour 1971–77. Wool, 290 by 425 cm. (Mobilier national, Paris;   Succession Picasso / DACS, London, 2021).
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11. Cheyt pyr, by Victor Vasarely. Beauvais tapestry, designed 1975, woven 1977. Wool, 258 by 258 cm. (Mobilier national, Paris;   ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London, 2021).
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12. Chair with Aviation, from Salon de la Guerre, a set of furniture by Robert Bonfils and Maurice Dufr ne. Gobelins tapestry, designed 1922, woven 1925. Wool, silk, beechwood and gilding, 103 by 61 by 52 cm. (Mobilier national, Paris).
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9. Summer, from the series The Seasons, by Jean Lurçat. Aubusson tapestry (Atelier Goubely), designed 1939, woven 1940–41. Wool, 335 by 485 cm. (Mobilier national, Paris;   ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London, 2021).
Book Review
Matisse: The Books
02/2021 | 1415 | 163
Pages: 189-190
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Reviewer:
Whitfield, Sarah (Whitfield, Sarah; Whitfield, Mrs)
Subjects
artists:
Matisse, Henri
subjects:
Artists' books / Illustrated books / Poetry / Politics / French art
subjects:
Second World War
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Matisse: The Books By Louise Rogers Lalaurie. 319 pp. incl. 237 col. + b. & w. ills. (Thames and Hudson, London and New York, 2020), £60. ISBN 978–0–500– 02168–2. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
8. From Jazz, by Henri Matisse. 1947. Published by Tériade, Paris. Unbound book with colour stencils on Arches paper and lithographed text, 42.5 by 33 by 3.5 cm. (© Succession H. Matisse / DACS 2020; photograph Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Book Review
Matisse and Decoration. By John Klein
05/2020 | 1406 | 162
Pages: 464-465
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Reviewer:
Buchberg, Karl (Buchberg, Karl)
Subjects
artists:
Matisse, Henri
media:
Textiles / Ceramics / Stained glass / Costume / Sets (architectural components)
subjects:
Decorative arts / Commissions / French art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Matisse and Decoration By John Klein. 272 pp. incl. 200 col. ills. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2018),  45. ISBN 978–0–300–13564–0. | :
Exhibition Review
Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today. Wallach Art Gallery, New York; and The Black Model from Géricault to Matisse. Musée d’Orsay, Paris
07/2019 | 1396 | 161
Pages: 591-594
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Reviewer:
Pullins, David (Pullins, David)
Subjects
artists:
Manet, Edouard / Matisse, Henri / Bazille, Frédéric / Beardon, Romare / Géricault, Théodore / Chassériau, Théodore / Benoist, Marie-Guillemine / Verdier, Marcel
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Columbia University, Wallach Art Gallery, New York, United States / Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
subjects:
Models (people) / Modernism / Feminism / Race / Colonialism / Exoticism / Slavery / Social history
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. Jeanne Duval, also known as Woman with a fan and Baudelaire’s mistress reclining, by Édouard Manet. 1862. Canvas, 89.5 by 113 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts Budapest; exh. Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
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17. Portrait of Madeleine, also known as Portrait of a Black woman and Portrait of a negress, by Marie-Guillemine Benoist. Canvas, 81 by 65 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; exh. Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
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18. Study of the model Joseph, by Théodore Chassériau. 1839. Canvas, 54.8 by 73.5 cm. (Musée Ingres, Montauban; exh. Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
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