Chris Boïcos of Paris Art Studies, gives this lecture on the exhibition running until May 29 at the Musée d’ l’Orangerie, Paris Among the many exhibitions on Matisse very few have focused specifically on his art in the 1930s.
In 1930, Matisse left France and traveled to the US and distant Tahiti, deliberately taking a break from creation, and reaching a turning point in his career. It is through the prism of Cahiers d’art, the great avant-garde magazine created by Christian Zervos in 1926, that the exhibition will be presenting Matisse’s work in this decade. Largely excluded from the modern art scene during the 1920s, the painter’s work once again became a subject for reflection and debate, due to regular publications in Cahiers d’Art of his radical pre-1916 paintings and reports on his current production. Articles and reproductions of Matisse’s works helped relaunch his competition with Picasso. In successive issues of the magazine, Matisse was featured alongside the key artists of his time: Braque, Miro, Léger, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Le Corbusier and Marcel Duchamp.
Join us in the launch of this spring’s Historiennes series as we participate in this lecture by one of our favorite Paris art historians!
Please register via Paris Art Studies and indicate in notes “Historiennes": https://www.pasonlinelectures.com/mondays/presentation-ml-cb-20-march-23-matisse-orangerie/
