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Matisse: Drawing Life

Henri Matisse
Patitcha souriante (Patitcha smiling) 1947
Purchased 1993 with funds from the
International Exhibitions Program
Collection: Queensland Art Gallery
© Henri Matisse 1947/Succession H Matisse/
Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney, 2011

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The inexhaustible Maestro as seen in sketches.

Editorial

When: 3 December, 2011 – 4 March, 2012
Where: GoMA Brisbane
Tickets: From $10-$20. Bookings online or 136 246

Henri Matisse was a busy bugger. When he wasn’t occupied redefining the Twentieth Century, he was creating costumes and sculpture.

The exacting training of a draughtsman informed even his most apparently chaotic stroke and in these works on paper we can see his mastery of the visual form.

Curated from a range of colelctions by Céline Chicha-Castex, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Prints, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and Paris curator Emilie Ovaere-Corthay, this exhibition helps us focus on the man’s fine form.

This is one of several special events marking glorious GoMA’s fifth birthday.

Helen Razer, Citysearch