Sophie Matisse

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Sophie Matisse (* 1965 in Boston ) is an American painter .

life and work

Sophie Matisse is the daughter of the sculptor Paul Matisse , granddaughter of the art dealer Pierre Matisse and great-granddaughter of the French painter Henri Matisse . Her step-grandfather was Marcel Duchamp , who had married her grandmother Alexina "Teeny" Sattler , divorced Matisse, in a second marriage.

In 1985 Sophie Matisse attended the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and from 1988 to 1990 the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris . In 1992 she married the French painter Alain Jacquet , who died in 2008. Their daughter Gaïa was born in 1993.

The Monna Lisa (Be Back in 5 Minutes)
Sophie Matisse , 1997
oil on wood
Francis M. Naumann Fine Art Gallery, New York

Link to the picture
(please note copyrights )

Matisse alienated art classics by keeping the background of the works and leaving out the characters. Examples are The Monna Lisa (Be Back in 5 Minutes) based on the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci , Las Meninas (2001) based on Diego Vélasquez ' Las Meninas, and adaptations based on works by Jan Vermeer , Paul Gauguin , Claude Monet and Edgar Degas . Nighthawks from 2001 based on the painting of the same name by Edward Hopper has the well-known bar without people. Matisse also pays tribute to the work of her great-grandfather Henri Matisse. In her painting The Gold Fish (1998) there are no goldfish. In The Conversation (2001) only the light blue room with a single chair appears. In 2003 she completed Final Guernica , a duplicate in almost identical canvas size of Pablo Picasso's monumental painting Guernica , which is not in gray-blue-black like the original in Madrid, but in bright colors.

In 2005 Matisse's style changed. She called her new series “Zebra Stripe Paintings”, in which she alienated well-known paintings with zebra-like stripes. In his introduction to the catalog of her exhibition at the Francis M. Naumann Fine Art gallery in New York , the curator of the Salt Lake City Art Center, Jim Edwards, described models for her new painting: he named the Belgian surrealist René Magritte , the Italian artist Mimmo Rotella , a representative of Nouveau Réalisme , and the pop-art artists James Rosenquist and Alain Jacquet, her husband. Edward traces the conceptual basis back to her step-grandfather, Marcel Duchamp. She painted Blue Nude in this style, another reminiscence of her great-grandfather Henri Matisse and his painting Nu bleu: souvenir de Biskra . According to Sophie Matisse, by alienating the original works, she would like to encourage the audience to take a closer look and arouse a whole new level of attention for the classic original.

In 2008, Matisse designed 50 different painted perfume bottles and their packaging for Kilian Hennessy , who died in 2010, the then shareholder of the luxury company LVMH . In the following year she created five painted chess sets, which were created in memory of Duchamp, the passionate chess player. In 2010 she painted four of a total of 60 pianos that were on sale as part of an exhibition by Sing for Hope, a non-profit organization, at Lincoln Center in New York .

reception

Copying famous pictures has a long tradition in art history. For example, Rubens replicated the works of his idol Titian . In contemporary art it was declared a separate art direction under the name " Appropriation Art ". Pop art artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein supported the art of copying with many works. At the end of the 1980s, New Yorker Mike Bidlo enriched the Leo Castelli gallery with over eighty “Picassos” he had painted himself . The latter, like Matisse and other artists such as Elmyr de Hory, took part in the 2010 exhibition “Seconde main” at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris .

Works (selection)

Web links

  • francisnaumann.com : Gemäldegalerie, exhibition list and bibliography (English)
  • artnet.com : Charly Finch: Sophie and Alain (with photo of the couple, English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from francisnaumann.com
  2. ^ Wiiliam Grimes, September 9, 2008: Alain Jacquet, Playful Pop Artist, Dies at 69.
  3. ↑ Sherry Wong: Back in Five Minutes , artnet.com, 2002, accessed December 26, 2010
  4. ^ Hella Boschmann: “Guernica” in strong colors , welt.de, February 15, 2003, accessed on December 26, 2010
  5. ↑ francisnaumann.com : Sophie Matisse: The Zebra Stripe Paintings , accessed 26 December 2010
  6. ^ Hella Boschmann: “Guernica” in strong colors , welt.de, February 15, 2003, accessed on December 26, 2010
  7. ^ France-Amérique , December 2008 , francisnaumann.com, accessed December 27, 2010
  8. ↑ The Art of Chess: Duchamp + Matisse ( memento from January 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), marcelduchamp.net, accessed on December 28, 2010
  9. ↑ Sing for Hope Wants New Yorkers Playing Piano All Summer , accessed December 28, 2010
  10. ^ Hella Boschmann: “Guernica” in strong colors , welt.de, February 15, 2003, accessed on December 26, 2010
  11. ^ "Seconde main" : kunstaspekte.de, accessed on December 27, 2010
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personal data
SURNAME Matisse, Sophie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , USA