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MATISSE Henri
(1869-1954)
"My eyes wide open, I absorb all things like the sponge sucks the liquid"
Henri MATISSE, a few dates

1869 born on December 31st 1869 at Cateau-Cambrésis
1891 settles in Paris
1895 enters the Art school in Paris
goes to the Gustave Moreau workshop and meets Georges Rouault and Albert Marquet
1905 participates to the Autumn Exhibition and provokes scandal with violent coloured paintings. He is criticized like a "Fauve", which will become the name of the movement fauvism.
1921 settles in Nice. He works on drawing, etching, illustration, design for ballets and theatre, nudes...
1925 is appointed "chevalier de la Légion d'honneur"
1954 died on November 3rd 1954 in Nice