Thread by @dean_frey

Remembering Henri Matisse on his birthday 🎂
📷 Robert Capa, Nice, 1949
"Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which is always inspired by reality."

Henri Matisse by Edward Steichen
Vanity Fair, 1915

Henri Matisse by Clifford Coffin, Vogue, 1949
Staying in bed all day = high productivity environment

Henri Matisse
Coffee, 1916
Oil on canvas
@DIADetroit
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Henri Matisse, at work in bed, gets a visit from his cat
📷 Robert Capa, Nice, 1950

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Looking at Matisse, Museum of Modern Art, 1939

Henri Matisse
Self Portrait, Three-Quarter View, 1948
@MuseumModernArt

More coffee with Henri Matisse ☕️
Laurette with a Cup of Coffee
1916-17
@artinstitutechi

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Matisse in his Studio, Vence
1944
Canadian Photography Institute
@NatGalleryCan

Portrait of Henri Matisse, 1905
André Derain (1880–1954)
@Tate

Henri Matisse draws with a light-tipped pen in his bed
📷 Gjon Mili, 1949

Henri Matisse by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Nice, 1944
"When I went to see Matisse, I sat in a corner and didn't move; we didn't speak to each other. It was as if we didn't exist."

Henri Matisse
Study for "Luxe, calme et volupté"
1904
@MuseumModernArt
Matisse took his title, "Richness, calm & pleasure", from Baudelaire's poem "L'invitation au voyage"
fleursdumal.org/poem/148

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Matisse, June 1951

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Matisse's studio at his villa "Le Rêve", 1944