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of Chicago Opens the Matisse Exhibit
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The Art Institute of Chicago
MATISSE: RADICAL INVENTION, 1913–1917
March 20 through June 20, 2010
review by Leslie Keeley
For your $18 admission fee, you are entitled to visit this groundbreaking exhibit, considered to be the seminal investigation of a new direction in Henri’s career. For his mastery of color, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, Matisse earned his recognition as a leading figure in modern art. He is regarded, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three seminal artists of the 20th century.
Blue Nude (Memory of Biskra) 1907 Oil on Canvas
Baltimore Museum of Art
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Nearly 120 of his most ambitious and experimental paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints from the period are on view. Matisse himself acknowledged the significance of these years when he identified two paintings, Bathers by a River and The Moroccans, as among his most pivotal. These monumental canvases from the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, inspired the collaborative work of this exhibition and serve as major touchstones within it. The Art Institute can offer art lovers an in-depth investigation of Matisse’s art from this time, revealing information uncovered through extensive new art-historical, archival, and technical research. And, in Henri’s own words regarding this new direction, “Creativity takes courage.” It is well worth a visit!
Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 will be on view:
• Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday:
11:30 am–5:00 pm
• Friday: 11:30 am–8:00 pm
• Saturday and Sunday: 11:00 am–5:00 pm
NOTES
• Art Institute members-only viewing: the first hour of the exhibition daily (Monday–Friday, 10:30–11:30 am, and Saturday and Sunday, 10:00–11:00 am) and Thursday evenings, 5:00–8:00 pm
• Last entry to the exhibition is 45 minutes before closing time and there is no re-entry into the exhibition once a visitor has left the last gallery.
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SUMMER HOURS (from Memorial Day to Labor Day)
10:30 am–5:00 pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
10:30 am–9:00 pm Thursday, Friday
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FREE FEBRUARY 1 TO 28
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Bathers with a Turtle--1907
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Portait of Yvonne Landsberg--Paris, quai Saint-Michel, 1914
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Interior with Goldfish--Paris, quai Saint-Michel, 1914
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HENRI MATISSE’S MOST EXPERIMENTAL AND INVENTIVE WORKS EXPLORED
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN GROUNDBREAKING EXHIBITION
MATISSE: RADICAL INVENTION, 1913–1917
March 20 through June 20, 2010
Co-Organized by, and Presented Exclusively
at, the AIC and MoMA, New York Extended
Viewing Hours Offered to Art Institute Members and Public The Art Institute of Chicago has announced
the world premiere of Matisse:
Radical Invention, 1913–1917—a
seminal investigation of a pivotal point in the career of Henri
Matisse (1869–1954), one of
the 20th century’s greatest artists. Nearly 120 of the artist’s paintings, sculptures,
drawings, and prints from this
five-year period will be presented,
including the masterpieces Bathers by a River (1909–10, 1913, 1916–17) and The
Moroccans (1915–16).
This is the first exhibition devoted solely to the work of this important period in Matisse’s career, thoroughly exploring his early working process as well as his revolutionary experimentation, or what he called his “methods of modern construction.” On view at the Art Institute of Chicago from March 20 through June 20, 2010, Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 is co-organized by, and presented exclusively at, the Art Institute and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA).
The exhibition will be on view at MoMA from July 18 through October 11, 2010. As the Art Institute is expecting large numbers of visitors to attend Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917, the museum will be open additional hours beginning Friday, March 26, 2010.
The museum will offer exclusive viewing hours for Art Institute Members only on Thursday nights from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m., in addition to extended viewing hours for the general public on Friday nights, 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 examines the period of Matisse’s production from his return to Paris from Morocco in 1913 to his departure for Nice in 1917. Though this period spans only five years, it represents a major turning point in Matisse’s career, the years when he developed his most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic works: paintings that are abstracted and rigorously purged of descriptive detail, geometric and sharply composed, and dominated by the colors black and gray. Previously considered to be responses to Cubism or World War I, or simply unrelated aberrations of the artist’s development, works from this period are here reassessed and presented as one of the most significant chapters of Matisse’s evolution as an artist.
A highlight of the exhibition is the Art Institute’s monumental painting, Bathers by a River. This painting has been the subject of extensive art-historical, archival, and scientific research that unlocks Matisse’s working methods. A painting that Matisse worked on repeatedly over a period of many years, Bathers by a River provides the key to the development of the artist’s revolutionary style of this time.
The subject of study for four years, Art Institute curators and conservators wedded new archival information and new imaging technologies to uncover the history of this painting’s evolution and its surprising connections with other works, most significantly The Museum of Modern Art’s The Moroccans and The Piano Lesson (1916). MoMA has likewise engaged in an investigation of works in its collection, and, through this partnership, new information about Matisse’s experimental techniques. Building on this research, Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 showcases a wide range of Matisse’s paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints primarily from 1913 to 1917. Visitors will be able to experience the exhibition not only through such important paintings as Interior with Goldfish Bowl (1914) and Portrait of Yvonne Landsberg (1914), but also through closer looks at the artist’s sculptures known as Back I, II, III, IV, and his innovative etchings, engravings, and monotypes—dramatic prints that the artist made only during the 1913–17 period. Also included in the exhibition is a special presentation of Matisse’s little-known Civil Prisoners of Bohain-en-Vermandois series that demonstrates how the artist attempted to unite his art, life, and wartime concerns during these years.
Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 explores the critical interplay of Matisse’s works and presents his great achievements as the product of this concentrated period of rigorous experimentation. Supplemented by graphic didactic materials and texts as well as audiovisual presentations of the conservation research involved in the project, Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 redefines our perception of this modern master and his art.
Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 is accompanied by a lavishly illustrated catalogue published by the Art Institute and distributed by Yale University Press. It will be available
early April 2010.
This is the first exhibition devoted solely to the work of this important period in Matisse’s career, thoroughly exploring his early working process as well as his revolutionary experimentation, or what he called his “methods of modern construction.” On view at the Art Institute of Chicago from March 20 through June 20, 2010, Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 is co-organized by, and presented exclusively at, the Art Institute and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA).
The exhibition will be on view at MoMA from July 18 through October 11, 2010. As the Art Institute is expecting large numbers of visitors to attend Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917, the museum will be open additional hours beginning Friday, March 26, 2010.
The museum will offer exclusive viewing hours for Art Institute Members only on Thursday nights from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m., in addition to extended viewing hours for the general public on Friday nights, 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 examines the period of Matisse’s production from his return to Paris from Morocco in 1913 to his departure for Nice in 1917. Though this period spans only five years, it represents a major turning point in Matisse’s career, the years when he developed his most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic works: paintings that are abstracted and rigorously purged of descriptive detail, geometric and sharply composed, and dominated by the colors black and gray. Previously considered to be responses to Cubism or World War I, or simply unrelated aberrations of the artist’s development, works from this period are here reassessed and presented as one of the most significant chapters of Matisse’s evolution as an artist.
A highlight of the exhibition is the Art Institute’s monumental painting, Bathers by a River. This painting has been the subject of extensive art-historical, archival, and scientific research that unlocks Matisse’s working methods. A painting that Matisse worked on repeatedly over a period of many years, Bathers by a River provides the key to the development of the artist’s revolutionary style of this time.
The subject of study for four years, Art Institute curators and conservators wedded new archival information and new imaging technologies to uncover the history of this painting’s evolution and its surprising connections with other works, most significantly The Museum of Modern Art’s The Moroccans and The Piano Lesson (1916). MoMA has likewise engaged in an investigation of works in its collection, and, through this partnership, new information about Matisse’s experimental techniques. Building on this research, Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 showcases a wide range of Matisse’s paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints primarily from 1913 to 1917. Visitors will be able to experience the exhibition not only through such important paintings as Interior with Goldfish Bowl (1914) and Portrait of Yvonne Landsberg (1914), but also through closer looks at the artist’s sculptures known as Back I, II, III, IV, and his innovative etchings, engravings, and monotypes—dramatic prints that the artist made only during the 1913–17 period. Also included in the exhibition is a special presentation of Matisse’s little-known Civil Prisoners of Bohain-en-Vermandois series that demonstrates how the artist attempted to unite his art, life, and wartime concerns during these years.
Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 explores the critical interplay of Matisse’s works and presents his great achievements as the product of this concentrated period of rigorous experimentation. Supplemented by graphic didactic materials and texts as well as audiovisual presentations of the conservation research involved in the project, Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 redefines our perception of this modern master and his art.
Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 is accompanied by a lavishly illustrated catalogue published by the Art Institute and distributed by Yale University Press. It will be available
early April 2010.
Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 is
curated by Stephanie D’Alessandro, Gary C. and Frances Comer Curator of Modern Art at the
Art Institute of Chicago, and John Elderfield, Chief Curator Emeritus of Painting and
Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Major funding for Matisse: Radical
Invention, 1913–1917 is generously provided by the Harris Family Foundation in memory of Bette
and Neison Harris, and Caryn and King Harris.
Additional funding is provided by Emily
Rauh Pulitzer. This project was partially funded by a grant from the Illinois Department of
Commerce and Economic Opportunity, Bureau of Tourism. Major funding for the exhibition
catalogue is generously provided by The Aaron I. Fleischman Foundation. Additional support
is provided by the Dedalus Foundation.
VISITOR
INFORMATION TICKETSSpecial dated, timed tickets to Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 are NOT required. Admission to the Art Institute includes all special exhibitions and coat check.
AUDIO TOUR
An audio tour of the exhibition is
available. Audio tours may be pre-purchased with any ticket or purchased at the exhibition entrance,
Michigan Avenue lobby, or Griffin Court. The audio tour is free to visually impaired visitors, and a
typescript of the audio tour is available for the hearing impaired.
EXHIBITION HOURSMatisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 will be on view:
• Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday:
11:30 am–5:00 pm
• Friday: 11:30 am–8:00 pm
• Saturday and Sunday: 11:00 am–5:00 pm
NOTES
• Art Institute members-only viewing: the first hour of the exhibition daily (Monday–Friday, 10:30–11:30 am, and Saturday and Sunday, 10:00–11:00 am) and Thursday evenings, 5:00–8:00 pm
• Last entry to the exhibition is 45 minutes before closing time and there is no re-entry into the exhibition once a visitor has left the last gallery.
11:30 am–5:00 pm
• Friday: 11:30 am–8:00 pm
• Saturday and Sunday: 11:00 am–5:00 pm
NOTES
• Art Institute members-only viewing: the first hour of the exhibition daily (Monday–Friday, 10:30–11:30 am, and Saturday and Sunday, 10:00–11:00 am) and Thursday evenings, 5:00–8:00 pm
• Last entry to the exhibition is 45 minutes before closing time and there is no re-entry into the exhibition once a visitor has left the last gallery.
Web: www.artinstituteofchicago.org
Twitter: @artinstitutechi
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MUSEUM HOURS
10:30 am–5:00 pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday
10:30 am–8:00 pm Thursday
10:00 am–5:00 pm Saturday, Sunday
TARGET FREE THURSDAY EVENINGS AFTER 5:00 pm
SUMMER HOURS (from Memorial Day to Labor Day)
10:30 am–5:00 pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
10:30 am–9:00 pm Thursday, Friday
10:00 am–5:00 pm Saturday, Sunday
TARGET FREE SUMMER EVENINGS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AFTER 5:00 pm
FREE FEBRUARY 1 TO 28
Closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day.
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Children 14 and over, students, and seniors $12.00 Includes all special exhibitions and coat check Chicago residents receive a $2.00 discount with proof of residency
Children under 14 always free
Members always free
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including the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Art Institute of Chicago is a museum in Chicago’s Grant Park, located across from Millennium Park. Visitors
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