#draughtsmanship

Henri Emile Benoit Matisse, was born on the 31st of December 1869 and died on the 3rd of November 1954. He was a French artist, Known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in the painting and sculpture.

The intense colorise of the works he painted between 1900 and 1905 brought him notoriety as one of the Fauves (wild beast). Many of his finest works were created in the decade of so after 1906, when he developed a rigorous style that emphasised flattened forms and decorative pattern. In 1917, he relocated to a suburb of Nice on the French Riviera, and the more relaxed style of his work during the 1920s gained him critical acclaim as an up holder of the classical tradition in French painting. After 1930, he adopted a bolder simplification of form.

When ill health struck him in his final years it prevented him from painting, he created an important body of work in the medium of cut paper collage. 

His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work panning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.

Foot study, 2018

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KAWANABE KYOSAI

1831-1889

A draughtsman of great dexterity with a wild, often bizarre, imagination. Loved sake, sometimes painting under its influence. At an early age studied under Kuniyoshi, then Maemura Towa and later Kano Tohaku Chinshin before becoming an independent painter at 27. Was famous for his crow paintings but also loved skeletons. This newly discovered painting shows a full-length skeleton humorously hiding its genital area – not with a fig-leaf – but a large lotus leaf. Sumi and light green on silk, 38.75 x 13 in; 98.5 x 33 cms.