Luxe, Calme et Volupté

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Year 1904 Location Musée d'Orsay, Paris Period Pointillism Created 1904		Medium Oil on canvas Artist Henri Matisse Media Oil paint Genre History painting

Dimensions 98.5 cm × 118.5 cm (37 in × 46 in) Similar Henri Matisse artwork, Artwork at Musée d'Orsay, Oil paintings

Matisse luxe calme et volupt

Luxe, Calme et Volupté is an oil painting by the French artist Henri Matisse. Both foundational in the oeuvre of Matisse and a pivotal work in the history of art, Luxe, Calme et Volupté is considered the starting point of Fauvism.

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Background

Luxe, Calme et Volupté was painted by artist called Matisse in 1904, after a summer spent working in St. Tropez on the French Riviera alongside the neo-Impressionist painters Paul Signac and Henri-Edmond Cross. The painting is Matisse's most important work in which he used the Divisionist technique advocated by Signac, which Matisse had first adopted after reading Signac's essay "D'Eugène Delacroix au Néo-impressionisme" in 1898. Signac purchased the work, which was exhibited in 1905 at the Salon des Indépendants. Matisse abandoned the Divisionist technique the following year and became one of the pioneers of Fauvism.

The painting's title comes from the poem L'Invitation au voyage, from Charles Baudelaire's volume Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil):

History

1905, in the collection of Paul Signac, purchased from Matisse

Collection Ginette Signac, daughter of the artist

1982, accepted by the French state for Les Musées Nationaux (11/02/1982)

1982 to 1985, attributed to the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris

1985, moved to Musée d'Orsay

Exhibitions

Salon de la Société des artistes indépendants. 21st exhibition, Paris, France, 1905

Henri Matisse, chapelle, peintures, dessins, sculptures, Paris, France, 1950

Le Fauvisme, Paris, France, 1951

Henri Matisse, New York, USA, 1951

Henri Matisse, Cleveland, USA, 1952

Henri Matisse, Chicago, USA, 1952

Henri Matisse, San Francisco, USA, 1952

Salon d'automne, Paris, France, 1955

Henri Matisse, retrospective exhibition, Paris, 1956

Cent chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art français, 1750-1950, Paris, 1957

Les sources du XXème siècle - les arts en Europe de 1884 à 1914, Paris, 1960

Les Fauves, Paris, 1962

Le Fauvisme français et les débuts de l'Expressionnisme allemand, Paris, 1966

Le Fauvisme français et les débuts de l'Expressionisme allemand, Munich, Germany, 1966

Neo-Impressionism, New York, 1968

Baudelaire, Paris, 1968

Henri Matisse. Exposition du centenaire, Paris, 1970

Henri Matisse, Zurich, Switzerland, 1982

Henri Matisse, Düsseldorf, Germany, 1983

De Manet à Matisse, 7 ans d'enrichissement au musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1990

Le Fauvisme ou "l'épreuve du feu", éruption de la modernité en Europe, Paris, 1999

1900, Paris, 2000

Méditerranée - De Courbet à Matisse, Paris, 2000

Le néo-impressionnisme de Seurat à Paul Klee, Paris, 2005

References

Luxe, Calme et Volupté Wikipedia

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