
Henri MATISSE
1869–1954, France
Also known as: HM

Signature proven counterfeit
Acrylic on canvas, landscape scene with lady in red sofa, 34x50 cm. Framed with wide gold frame. The painting was sold in the 1970's to 90,000 Swedish crowns in cash. The painting is part of a major fraud seizures of counterfeit art in Sweden known as ”The Society of Art Friends”: Three men, aged 30, 37, and 40 years old, were caught in Stockholm, Sweden after a reconnaissance tip from police in Ängelholm, Sweden. Shortly afterwards, another two men were caught. In total, 48 house searches were made through out the nation from which 83 forged paintings were confiscated. Forged art had already been sold for millions of Swedish crowns. Victims of the gang were well known businessmen with considerable incomes. League had good help from educated art experts who have written certificate of authenticity to many of the fake paintings, often at very small remuneration. On a door to a flat in Stockholm the men had displayed a sign with the text “The Society of Art Friends”. After an expert assessment and judgment was declared that the painting not genuine. It is a forgery.

Signature proven counterfeit
Gouach, oil and tempera on ppapper, resting woman, signed 'Henri Matisse 46 ", 96x77 cm. The painting is part of a larger seizures of counterfeit art in Finland in 2003. Several people were involved in the fraud. They were inter alia tried to sell art through a major auction houses in Helsinki for about one million Euros. This painting, ostensibly picturing Matisse was for sale for Euro 75.000. After an expert assessment and judgment was declared that the painting not genuine. It is a forgery.

Signature proven counterfeit
Acrylic on board, 45x37 cm, signed "Matisse 48". On the back of the painting is recorded: Henri Matisse 12/48 Pineapple III. Professor Björn Hallström at the Institute of Materials Science at the Art Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, has certified that the painting is entirely or mainly made of colors of acrylic type which came into use in the late 1950s. The painting has not been painted by Matisse in 1948 or not at all by Matisse. The painting is a copy, an attempt to mimic Matisse. The District Court's assessment: The painting is painted by Matisse nor signed by Matisse. It is a forgery.

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Henri Matisse was born at Le Cateau-Cambrésis in the North of France on December 31, 1869. His parents, Emile Matisse and Héloise Gérars, had a general store selling household goods and seed. Henri planned on a legal career, and in 1887/88 studied law in Paris, in 1889 he was employed as a clerk in a solicitor’s office. It was in 1890 that he was first attracted to painting. Confined to his bed for nearly a year (1890) after an intestinal operation, he chose drawing as a pastime. Then the hobby took best of him and he decided for the painting career.
The long years of learning followed: in 1891 Matisse studied under Bouguereau at the Académie Julian, and in 1892 transferred unofficially to Gustave Moreau’s studio at the Ecole Beaux-Arts, where he met Marquet, at the same time attending the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs. In 1894 his daughter Marguerite was born, though Matisse did not marry the mother, Amélie Paraere, till 1898.
In 1896 he made a successful début at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and a year later displayed there his large canvas La Desserte, which showed the influence of the Impressionists. After Moreau’s death in 1898, he studied briefly with Cormon, then left the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and entered the Académie Carrière where he met Derain and Puy and attended evening classes in sculpture. In 1899 his son Jean, and then, in 1900, his son Pierre were born. Financial difficulties made him to stay for some time with his parents.
During the period of 1899-1904 Matisse participated in a group exhibition at Berthe Weil’s Gallery (1902), painted townscapes with Marquet in Paris, spent the summer of 1904 working with Signac and Cross at Saint-Tropez, and in 1905-6 painted views of Collioure.
In 1905 and 1906 Matisse, his talent now fully developed, exhibited at the Salon d’Automne and the Salon des Indépendants together with Derain, Marquet, Vlaminck, Roauault and others and sparked off controversy. The group was ironically nicknamed “Les Fauves” (The Wild ones). At that time Matisse displayed a tendency towards monumental, decorative compositions. If in 1900 it was only to earn some money that he took on the task of painting a frieze for the World Fair at the Grand Palais in Paris, in 1907 he worked with enthusiasm on a ceramic triptych, Nymph and Satyr, for Osthaus’s mansion in Hagen, Westphalia. In 1908 Matisse painted the monumental canvas The Red Room; and in 1909-10 executed two large decorative panels, The Dance and The Music on commissions from the Moscow businessman S. Shchukin. Sculpture, too, began to occupy a significant place in Matisse’s artistic endeavor and was exhibited for the first time in 1912, in New York. At this time, Matisse set forth the theoretical basis for his art in his Notes d’un peintre (1908) and expounded his views on painting in the art school (the Atelier Matisse), which he had organized. But soon teaching began to weigh heavily on the artist, and he withdrew more and more frequently to Issy-des-Moulineaux.
In 1910 Matisse visited Munich to see an exhibition of Islamic art, in 1911 Seville, then Moscow on the invitation of S. Shchukin, and at the end of that year, Tangier, Morocco. From 1914 to 1918 he divided his time between Collioure, Paris and Nice. In 1918 a Matisse-and-Picasso exhibition opened at the Guillaume Gallery: it was to a certain extent indicative of the role of these two painters in contemporary art.
In 1920 Matisse designed the stage sets and costumes for S. Diaghilev’s ballet The Nightingale (to Stravinsky’s music) and in 1939 for Léonide Massine’s ballet Rouge et Noir (to the music of Shostakovich’s first Symphony). In 1931-33 he painted a large decorative composition, The Dance, for the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania; the same years he fulfilled etching illustrations for Mallarmé’s Poésies. In 1934-35 Matisse produced cartoons for carpets, based on James Joyce’s Ulysses.
During the Second World War Matisse lived in the south of France – Bordeaux, Ciboure, Nice. In 1941 he underwent a serious operation. Confined to bed for most of the ensuing period, he turned his attention to book design and illustrations. He designed and illustrated Henri de Montherlant’s Pasiiphaë in 1944, Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal, Mariana Alcoforado’s Lettres Portugaises and Reverdy’s Visages in 1946, and Ronsard’s Amours in 1948. His unique book Jazz, published in 1947, contained a facsimile reproduction of the text written in the artist’s own hand and illustrations executed in gouache after Matisse’s cut-outs.
It was only after the end of the war that Matisse turned anew to monumental compositions. He executed sketches for the stained-glass panel representing St. Dominique in the church at Assy (1948), the interior decoration for the Dominican chapel of Notre-Dame du Rosaire at Vence (1948-51), and sketches for the stained-glass panel Rose for the Uniate Church in New York (1954). In his last years he devoted a great deal of his time to cut-outs and brush drawings.
The Musée Matisse was opened in 1952 at Le Cateau-Cambrésisi, the birthplace of the artist. Matisse died on November 3, 1954 and was buried in the cemetery at Cimiez.
Source: http://www.abcgallery.com
Matisse är en av de främsta bland de tidiga modernisterna, och han arbetade med varierande uttrycksmedel och material, men var i huvudsak målare.
Matisse föddes i Le Cateau-Cambrésis men växte upp i Bohain-en-Vermandois i departementet Aisne. Han flyttade 1887 till Paris för att studera juridik. Under en tids sjukdom började han att måla, och 1891 inledde han studier i måleri på Académie Julian i Paris, där han bland annat studerade för Odilon Redon och Gustave Moreau.
I början var han mycket influerad och inspirerad av verk av konstnärerna Édouard Manet, Paul Signac och Paul Cézanne. Han blev snart ledare för de målare som kallas fauvister. 1901 deltog han i en utställning, och 1904 hade han sin första separatutställning. När han flyttade söderut till bland annat franska rivieran, träffade han André Derain och hans måleri utvecklades, det han då utförde är bland det bästa han gjort och verken från 1906-1917 räknas till hans förnämsta. Efter att ha bosatt sig i Nice 1921 blev hans konst mer dekorativ och lite mindre intensiv.
1941 fick han besked att han hade cancer, men trots att han blev rullstolsburen hindrades han inte från att arbeta med sin konst. Han var dock märkt av sjukdomen och det var vid denna tidpunkt han började arbeta med papper och collage, som även det, blivit ett signum för Matisse, tack vare hans känsla för färg och form.
Source: Art Signature Dictionary

Tête De Jeune Fill

Figure Assise, Le Bras Droit Appuyé Sur Une Table (1929)

Etudes Pour La Vierge Tête Voilée

Nu Assis, Fond Bleu (-36)

étude Pour La Nappe Liturgique De La Chapelle De Vence I (1949)

Figure Assise Sur Fond De Carreaux Fleuris (Executed in 1929)

Etudes Pour La Vierge - Tête Voilée (1951)

Portrait Of A Woman

Femme Auprès De La Fenêtre (Executed in 1919)

La Tiaré (Conceived in 1930)

Etude Pour La France (1939)

Matisse (1947)

Patitcha Souriante (1947)

Odalisque Couchée (1923)

Maison De La Pensée Francaise (1950)

Espagnole à La Mantille (1925)

Madame De Pompadour (-51)

Dix Danseuses: Danseuse Au Tabouret (1925-26)

Le Lagon (jazz, Pl. Xvii) (1947)

Algue Blanc Sur Fond Rouge Et Vert

Madame De Pompadour (Executed 1951)

Le Cow-boy (jazz, Pl. Xiv) (Executed 1947)

Nu, Jambe Repliée - étude De Jambes (Executed 1925)

Dix Danseuses: Danseuse Au Tabouret (Executed 1925-26)

Composition

Nu

Portrait De Femme

Nu Assis Dans Un Fauteuil Au Décor Fleuri (1924)
La Cité - Notre-dame (1937)

La Blouse Paysanne (ca 1950)

Portrait De Claude B

Tête Voilée

Vierge à L'enfant Debout (1949)

Autoportrait De Trois-quarts (1948)

Danseuse étendue Au Divan, Ur Dix Danseuses (1925-26)

The Sculptures Of...1953

Nu Aux Jambes Croisées (1936)

Algue Rouge Sur Fond Bleu Ciel (1952)

Efter, Nice Travail Et Joie (1947)

France-cöte D´azur, Nice, La Danseuse Creole

Jeune Femme Au Balcon, Observant Des Perruches (1929)
