Interpreting Matisse Picasso

by Cowling, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780810962583
• ISBN10: 0810962586
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-03
• Publisher: Tate

Summary

When Matisse and Picasso first met in the spring of 1906, Matisse was already crowned "King of the Fauves" and Picasso was poised to challenge the leadership of the avant-garde. Although the two artists never became intimate friends, they were in regular contact for the last 20 years of Matisse's life, and their friendship became much warmer when Picasso moved to the South of France in 1946. This lavishly illustrated book provides a fascinating account of the evolving personal relationship of the two artists, and in doing so it challenges the popular notion of intense rivalry and personal antipathy, revealing instead evidence of their mutual respect and admiration.

Table of Contents

Matisse and Picasso: A Creative Dialogue	7	(4)
The Dialogue Commences	11	(16)
Four Still Lifes	27	(4)
The Cubist Years	31	(14)
Creative Copies	45	(20)
Shared Themes:
The Dance	47	(4)
The Artist and Model	51	(3)
Odalisques and Dreamers	54	(11)
The War Years	65	(4)
Peacetime Reunion: Before and After Matisse's Death	69	(9)
Notes	78	(2)
Index	80