The work he hung and displayed in his home included a plaster bust by Rodin, a painting by Gauguin, a drawing by Van Gogh, and Cézanne's Three Bathers. Matisse immersed himself in the work of others and went into debt from buying work from painters he admired. Upon his return to Paris in February 1899, he worked beside Albert Marquet and met André Derain, Jean Puy, and Jules Flandrin. Turner and then went on a trip to Corsica. In 1898, on the advice of Camille Pissarro, he went to London to study the paintings of J. Marguerite and Amélie often served as models for Matisse. In 1898, he married Amélie Noellie Parayre the two raised Marguerite together and had two sons, Jean (born 1899) and Pierre (born 1900). With the model Caroline Joblau, he had a daughter, Marguerite, born in 1894. The same year, Matisse exhibited five paintings in the salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, two of which were purchased by the state. He later said Russell was his teacher, and that Russell had explained colour theory to him. Matisse's style changed completely abandoning his earth-coloured palette for bright colours. Russell introduced him to Impressionism and to the work of Vincent van Gogh-who had been a friend of Russell-and gave him a Van Gogh drawing. In 1896, Matisse, an unknown art student at the time, visited the Australian painter John Russell on the island Belle Île off the coast of Brittany. Chardin was one of the painters Matisse most admired as an art student he made copies of four of Chardin's paintings in the Louvre. Matisse was influenced by the works of earlier masters such as Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Nicolas Poussin, and Antoine Watteau, as well as by modern artists, such as Édouard Manet, and by Japanese art. Initially he painted still lifes and landscapes in a traditional style, at which he achieved reasonable proficiency. In 1891, he returned to Paris to study art at the Académie Julian under William-Adolphe Bouguereau and at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts under Gustave Moreau. He discovered "a kind of paradise" as he later described it, and decided to become an artist, deeply disappointing his father. He first started to paint in 1889, after his mother brought him art supplies during a period of convalescence following an attack of appendicitis. In 1887, he went to Paris to study law, working as a court administrator in Le Cateau-Cambrésis after gaining his qualification. He grew up in Bohain-en-Vermandois, Picardie, France. Matisse was born in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, in the Nord department in Northern France on New Year's Eve in 1869, the oldest son of a wealthy grain merchant. Woman Reading ( La Liseuse), 1895, oil on board, 61.5 x 48 cm, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Musée Matisse His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art. When ill health in his final years prevented him from painting, he created an important body of work in the medium of cut paper collage. After 1930, he adopted a bolder simplification of form. In 1917, he relocated to a suburb of Nice on the French Riviera, and the more relaxed style of his work during the 1920s gained him critical acclaim as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. Many of his finest works were created in the decade or so after 1906, when he developed a rigorous style that emphasised flattened forms and decorative pattern. The intense colourism of the works he painted between 19 brought him notoriety as one of the Fauves ( French for "wild beasts"). Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Henri Émile Benoît Matisse ( French: 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. Sergei Shchukin, Gertrude Stein, Etta Cone, Claribel Cone, Sarah Stein, Albert C.
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