Eskimos seen by Henri Matisse - George Duthuit A Day in Cimmeria
Le Cateau-Cambrai, county museum Matisse
November 7, 2010> February 6, 2011
"The exhibition is a new look at the work of Matisse. The painter in 1947, passion for the collection of Eskimo masks had gathered his son George Duthuit, art critic, a specialist in modern art and Oriental art historian and writer. The daughter of Henri Matisse, Marguerite and her husband, George Duthuit, had planned to build a series of books on the subject of rituals, celebrations in some cultures, like the Eskimos, Indians, Polynesians and Africans. Inaugurating the series, the book about Eskimos is a poetic essay by Georges Duthuit, A Day in Cimmeria - fantastic tale involving observation and realistic and inaugurating the impossible meeting between the world of the Inuit traditional customs and the tilt of an America in modernity - for which Matisse made drawings of faces of Inuit people in permanent contact with the mystical and physical forces of nature.
Le Cateau-Cambrai, county museum Matisse
November 7, 2010> February 6, 2011
"The exhibition is a new look at the work of Matisse. The painter in 1947, passion for the collection of Eskimo masks had gathered his son George Duthuit, art critic, a specialist in modern art and Oriental art historian and writer. The daughter of Henri Matisse, Marguerite and her husband, George Duthuit, had planned to build a series of books on the subject of rituals, celebrations in some cultures, like the Eskimos, Indians, Polynesians and Africans. Inaugurating the series, the book about Eskimos is a poetic essay by Georges Duthuit, A Day in Cimmeria - fantastic tale involving observation and realistic and inaugurating the impossible meeting between the world of the Inuit traditional customs and the tilt of an America in modernity - for which Matisse made drawings of faces of Inuit people in permanent contact with the mystical and physical forces of nature.
Matisse's interest for the representation of faces, it is sometimes called masks, and his curiosity about the Eskimo masks are amazing.
For portraits of Inuit, Matisse was inspired by masks from the collection of George Duthuit.
The first version of the book, published in 1963 by Teriade, comprises the text of George Duthuit, 30 lithographs and an aquatint.
His presentation at the county museum Matisse is accompanied by the second version of the book, published in 1964, proofs and annotated drawings of Matisse studies by referring to the text of his son, stories and photographs of explorers.
The exhibition also includes an outstanding collection of Inuit masks whose famous collection of the museum Pinart Alfonso of Boulogne-sur-Mer which was exhibited in Paris at the time Matisse illustrated the book. "
http://www.aphg.fr/CPLesEsquimauxvusparMatisse.pdf
County Museum Matisse
A museum of the Northern Department
Palais Fénelon, 59360 Le Cateau-Cambrai
T. 33 (0) 3 27 84 64 50
F. 33 (0) 3 27 84 64 54
museematisse@cg59.fr
Matisse, a festival in Cimmeria - Representation of the face in the work of Matisse
Duthuit Claude, Claudine Grammont, Marie-Therese Pulvénis of Séligny, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine
Released: 04/07/2003
Publisher: NMR
72 pages
Eskimos seen by Matisse - A Day in Cimmeria
Duthuit Georges, Dominique Szymusiak, Collective
Released: 17/11/2010
Publisher: Hazan
128 pages
"In 1945, after a long exile in New York, George Duthuit, writer and art historian, returns to France with a poetic text on the magical world of the Inuit.
Matisse is asked by his daughter Margaret, wife of George Duthuit to illustrate the text, finding that there are many connections between art of the Eskimos and the painter. Matisse, passionate portrait, accepts and then draws the "Eskimo type" from photographs taken by polar explorers and especially after seeing the exceptional collection of masks Inuit of his son, acquired during the war, along with Breton, Levi-Strauss, Max Ernst, among others, and from the National Museum of India (George Heye collection) from New York. Matisse will examine this art. He draws portraits he calls "masks". It diversifies in terms of impressive designs and a masterly series of 31 prints. "
For portraits of Inuit, Matisse was inspired by masks from the collection of George Duthuit.
The first version of the book, published in 1963 by Teriade, comprises the text of George Duthuit, 30 lithographs and an aquatint. His presentation at the county museum Matisse is accompanied by the second version of the book, published in 1964, proofs and annotated drawings of Matisse studies by referring to the text of his son, stories and photographs of explorers.
The exhibition also includes an outstanding collection of Inuit masks whose famous collection of the museum Pinart Alfonso of Boulogne-sur-Mer which was exhibited in Paris at the time Matisse illustrated the book. "http://www.aphg.fr/CPLesEsquimauxvusparMatisse.pdf
County Museum Matisse
A museum of the Northern Department
Palais Fénelon, 59360 Le Cateau-Cambrai
T. 33 (0) 3 27 84 64 50
F. 33 (0) 3 27 84 64 54
museematisse@cg59.fr
Matisse, a festival in Cimmeria - Representation of the face in the work of Matisse Duthuit Claude, Claudine Grammont, Marie-Therese Pulvénis of Séligny, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine
Released: 04/07/2003
Publisher: NMR
72 pages
Eskimos seen by Matisse - A Day in Cimmeria Duthuit Georges, Dominique Szymusiak, Collective
Released: 17/11/2010
Publisher: Hazan
128 pages
"In 1945, after a long exile in New York, George Duthuit, writer and art historian, returns to France with a poetic text on the magical world of the Inuit.
Matisse is asked by his daughter Margaret, wife of George Duthuit to illustrate the text, finding that there are many connections between art of the Eskimos and the painter. Matisse, passionate portrait, accepts and then draws the "Eskimo type" from photographs taken by polar explorers and especially after seeing the exceptional collection of masks Inuit of his son, acquired during the war, along with Breton, Levi-Strauss, Max Ernst, among others, and from the National Museum of India (George Heye collection) from New York. Matisse will examine this art. He draws portraits he calls "masks". It diversifies in terms of impressive designs and a masterly series of 31 prints. "
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