The impact of Henri Matisse's lifelong interest in textiles will be shown in a selection of approximately 45 paintings, drawings, prints, and painted paper cutouts. Also exhibited will be examples from the artist's personal collection of textiles, many of which have been packed away in family trunks since Matisse's death in 1954. Of particular interest are Matisse’s canvases inspired by a fragment of cotton toile de Jouy that the artist purchased from a secondhand shop in Paris, works from the 1910s and 1920s demonstrating the influence of North African fabrics and screens, paintings featuring Rumanian blouses and couture gowns, and Matisse’s late paper cutouts, some of which are indebted to Kuba fabrics from Zaire. The exhibition will conclude with vestments that Matisse designed for the chapel of St.-Paul-de-Vence.
Accompanied by a publication.