Matisse and the sea / Simon Kelly ; with essays by John Klein and Ellen McBreen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

St. Louis Art Museum, issuing body, host institution.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954--Exhibitions.

Matisse, Henri.

Sea in art--Exhibitions.

Sea in art.

Genre:

exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

St. Louis, Missouri : Saint Louis Art Museum, [2024]

Summary:

"The exhibition catalogue Matisse and the Sea examines the influence of the sea across modernist artist Henri Matisse's career, which included painting in coastal locations on the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. This book brings together artwork in a range of media (painting, sculptures, paper cutouts, drawings, prints, ceramics, and textiles), and has a particular focus on Matisse's iconic coastal painting, Bathers with a Turtle, exploring the range of sources, from Cezanne to African sculpture, that informed this picture"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Bathers with a turle and Matisse's globalism / Simon Kelly

Matisse and water / John Klein

Bathers unmoored / Ellen McBreen

Catalogue / Simon Kelly, Nichole N. Bridges, Abigail Yoder, and Lacy Murphy

Technical observations and analyses of Bathers with a turle / Melissa Gardner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-135) and index.

Local Notes:

On the occasion of an exhibition held at Saint Louis Art Museum, February 17 - May 12, 2024.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9783777442693

3777442690

OCLC:

1398463386

Publisher Number:

9783777442693