Musée Matisse (Nice)
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Established | 1963 |
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Location | 164, Avenue des Arènes de Cimiez 06000 Nice, France |
Type | Art museum |
Website | www.musee-matisse-nice.org/ |
The Musée Matisse in Nice is a municipal museum devoted to the work of French painter Henri Matisse. It gathers one of the world's largest collections of his works, tracing his artistic beginnings and his evolution through his last works. The museum, which opened in 1963, is located in the Villa des Arènes, a seventeenth-century villa in the neighborhood of Cimiez.[1]
Description
The Villa des Arènes was constructed from 1670 to 1685. Upon its completion, it was named the Gubernatis palace after its sponsor and owner, Jean-Baptiste Gubernatis, then consul in Nice. The villa took its current name in 1950, when the City of Nice, anxious to preserve it, bought it from a real estate company.[citation needed]
The museum was created in 1963 and occupied the first floor of the villa, the ground floor being then occupied by a museum of archaeology. In 1989, the archaeological museum was moved to the nearby ancient site of the city, allowing the Musée Matisse to be expanded. It was closed for four years during renovations, and reopened in 1993. With a new modern wing as well as renovated spaces, the museum could exhibit its entire permanent collection, which has continued to increase since 1963 through several successive acquisitions and donations.[citation needed]
The museum's permanent collection is made up of a variety of donations, primarily those of Matisse himself, who lived and worked in Nice from 1917 to 1954, and those of his heirs, as well as works contributed by the State. The museum houses 68 paintings and gouaches, 236 drawings, 218 prints, 95 photos, 57 sculptures and 14 books illustrated by Matisse, 187 objects that belonged to the painter, and prints, tapestries, ceramics, stained glass and documents.[2]
See also
- List of single-artist museums
- Matisse Museum, Le Cateau, France
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References
External links
- Official site
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- Woman Reading (1894)
- Landscape, the Pink Wall (1898)
- Academy Study of a Man (1900-1901)
- A Glimpse of Notre-Dame in the Late Afternoon (1902)
- Luxury, Calm and Pleasure (1904)
- The Green Stripe (1905)
- The Open Window (1905)
- Woman with a Hat (1905)
- View of Collioure (1905)
- Landscape at Collioure (1905)
- Le bonheur de vivre (1906)
- The Young Sailor II (1906)
- Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt (1906)
- Madras Rouge (1907)
- Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra) (1907)
- The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room) (1908)
- Game of Bowls (1908)
- Bathers with a Turtle (1908)
- Portrait of Greta Moll (1908)
- Dance (1910)
- Music (1910)
- Still Life with Geraniums (1910)
- The Red Studio (1911)
- The Conversation (1908–1912)
- Goldfish (1912)
- Zorah on the Terrace (1912)
- Window at Tangier (1912)
- Seated Riffian (1912)
- Arab Coffeehouse (1912–1913)
- View of Notre-Dame (1914)
- Woman on a High Stool (1914)
- The Yellow Curtain (1915)
- Bathers by a River (1917)
- The Painter and His Model (1917)
- The Music Lesson (1917)
- The Piano Lesson (1918)
- Odalisque with Raised Arms (1923)
- Yellow Odalisque (1926)
- The Dance II (1932)
- Purple Robe and Anemones (1937)
- Woman in a Purple Coat (1937)
- La Blouse Roumaine (1940)
- Annelies, White Tulips and Anemones (1944)
- Asia (1946)
- Young Woman in White on a Red Background (1946)
- The Knife Thrower (1947)
- Deux fillettes, fond jaune et rouge (1947)
- The Plum Blossoms (1948)
- Beasts of the Sea (1950)
- The Sorrows of the King (1952)
- Black Leaf on Green Background (1952)
- La Négresse (1952)
- The Snail (1953)
- The Boat (1953)
- The Back Series (1909–1930)
- Goldfish paintings and etchings (1912–1929)
- Blue Nudes (1952)
- Jazz (1947 book)
- Pierre Matisse (son)
- Paul Matisse (grandson)
- Sophie Matisse (great-granddaughter)
- Lydia Delectorskaya (model)
- Gustave Moreau (teacher)
- Fauvism
- An Essay on Matisse (1996 documentary)
- Matisse (crater)