- Henri Matisse
- Un mardi avec Matisse : l’illustration des poésies de Mallarmé
- MATISSE: THE BOOKS. Louise Rogers Lalaurie
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Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse, né le 31 décembre 1869 au Cateau-Cambrésis et mort le 3 novembre 1954 à Nice, est un peintre, dessinateur et sculpteur français.
Il fut le chef de file du fauvisme ; Pablo Picasso le considérait comme son grand rival et néanmoins ami.
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Un mardi avec Matisse : l’illustration des poésies de Mallarmé
Arrivant au terme de cette illustration des poésies de Mallarmé
je voudrais simplement déclarer : voici le travail que j’ai fait après avoir lu Mallarmé avec plaisir.
Henri Matisse
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MATISSE: THE BOOKS. Louise Rogers Lalaurie
Mon ouvrage MATISSE: THE BOOKS est sorti avec Thames & Hudson (RU), University of Chicago Press (US), et Einaudi (Italie) en 2020, avec un chapitre sur son livre d’artiste « Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé ». L’ouvrage reproduit la plupart des pages du livre originel, avec les poèmes de Mallarmé mises en page et illustrés par Henri Matisse au début des années 30. Y figurent aussi les autres grands livres d’artiste de Matisse, avec les poésies de Ronsard, Baudelaire, Charles d’Orléans…
The *livre d’artiste*, or ‘artist’s book’, is among the most prized in rare book collections. Henri Matisse (1869–1954) was one of the greatest artists to work in this genre, creating his most important books over a period of eighteen years from 1932 to 1950 – a time of personal upheaval and physical suffering, as well as conflict and occupation for France. Brimming with powerful themes and imagery, these works are crucial to an understanding of Matisse’s oeuvre, yet much of their content has never been seen by a wider audience.
In *Matisse: The Books*, Louise Rogers Lalaurie reintroduces us to Matisse by considering how in each of eight limited-edition volumes, the artist constructs an intriguing dialogue between word and image. She also highlights the books’ profound significance for Matisse as the catalysts for the extraordinary ‘second life’ of his paper cut-outs. In concert with an eclectic selection of poetry, drama and, tantalizingly, Matisse’s own words, the books’ images offer an astonishing portrait of creative resistance and regeneration.
Matisse’s books contain some of the artist’s best-known graphic works – the magnificent, belligerent swan from the *Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé*, or the vigorous linocut profile from *Pasiphaé* (1944), reversed in a single, rippling stroke out of a lake of velvety black. In *Jazz*, the cut-out silhouette of Icarus plummets through the azure, surrounded by yellow starbursts, his heart a mesmerizing dot of red. But while such individual images are well known, their place in an integrated sequence of pictures, decorations and words is not.
With deftness and sensitivity, Lalaurie explores the page-by-page interplay of the books, translating key sequences and discussing their distinct themes and creative genesis. Together Matisse’s artist books reveal his deep engagement with questions of beauty and truth; his faith; his perspectives on aging, loss, and inspiration; and his relationship to his critics, the French art establishment and the women in his life. In addition, *Matisse: The Books* illuminates the artist’s often misunderstood political affinities – in particular, his decision to live in the collaborationist Vichy zone, throughout World War II. Matisse’s wartime books are revealed as a body of work that stands as a deeply personal statement of resistance.
Poèmes
Eventail de Madame Mallarmé
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Actualités
Le musée Matisse vient d’acquérir par achat le livre « Poésies » de Stéphane Mallarmé, illustré par Henri Matisse.
© Succession H. Matisse | Photo © François Fernandez
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