Art June 2010
Matisse in Chicago
On “Matisse: Radical Invention 1913–1917” at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Henri Matisse, Bathers by a River (1909-10, 1913, 1916-17) © 2010 Succession Matisse/ ARS, New York. |
In January 1913, Henri Matisse turned forty-three. His work was still considered controversial, if not downright dangerous, but he had nonetheless acquired a small circle of collector-admirers who included Gertrude and Leo Stein and the Russian patrons Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morosov. He even had achieved a measure of financial security, a contract with the respected gallery Bernheim-Jeune,...
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