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The Matisse exhibition «Cahiers d’art - The turning point of the 1930s» looks back on this decisive decade in that it will determine the years that will follow. In 1930, Matisse left France for a trip to Tahiti.
He voluntarily marks a break in his creation to engage in an artistic turn and reinvent himself.
The review “Cahiers d’art” by Christian Zervos reactivates the Matisse- Picasso duo as the voice of international modernism.
This exhibition is dedicated solely to this period and is carried by three institutions in three emblematic places of this moment in his work, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, dedica- ted to the Paul Guillaume collection, one of the Matisse dealers whose collection of works by the latter shown in the early 1930s contributes to the renewed interest in Matisse’s radical pre-war period, and finally the Matisse Museum in Nice, a place of life and creation, source of inspira- tion since 1917.
Henri Matisse (1869–1954) Nymph in the forest (Greenery), 1935-1942/1943
Oil on canvas 245,5 × 195,5 cm
Paris, musée d’Orsay, en dépôt au musée Matisse de Nice, 1978 © Succession H. Matisse
Photo Musée Matisse, Nice / François Fernandez