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Paysage marocain (Acanthes)
Paysage marocain (Acanthes)
Paysage marocain (Acanthes)
Photo: Tobias Fischer/Moderna Museet

Paysage marocain (Acanthes)

by Henri Matisse
Artist (Frankrike, 1869 - 1954)
Alternate Title
  • Marockanskt landskap (Akantus)
  • Moroccan Landscape (Acanthus)
Date1912
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsBildmått: 115 × 80 cm Ram: 139 × 103 × 6,5 cm
Classification
Countries
Credit LineDonation 1917 från Walter Halvorsen
Object NumberNM 2070
The artwork is not on display
About the artwork In the winter of 1912, Henri Matisse travelled to Tangiers in Morocco, inspired by a major exhibition on Islamic art he had seen in Munich in 1910. After weeks of pouring rain, the sun brought the light he had been looking for. In the painting, the ground is blue on pink, and overgrown with thriving acanthus leaves, like the ones he saw in the lush garden where he worked. Matisse wanted to channel the inner expressive capacity of colours, like the dripping humidity, growth and inner force conveyed in this painting. The Moroccan landscape looked just the way he had imagined after seeing the romantic painter Eugène Delacroix’s scenes from Morocco, and reading Pierre Loti’s Travel Memoir “In Morocco”. Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerad i nedre vänstra hörnet: "Henri Matisse" Selected exhibition history Moderna Museet c/o Waldemarsudde - Moderna klassiker (2002-2003) Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm Moderna Museets samling i ny presentation (1998-2000) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Ny presentation av samlingen (2000-2002) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Scenbyte: verk ur Moderna Museets Samling av Dardel, Matisse, Abdul-Hadi, Hjertén och Léger m.fl. (den 15 oktober 2011 - den 5 februari 2012) Moderna Museet Malmö Önskemuseet (1963-1964) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Den tidiga modernismen: 1900-1920 ur Moderna Museets samling (den 19 mars 2011 - den 2 oktober 2011) Moderna Museet Malmö Samlingsutställning 2004 - 2011 - I vår tid (2004 - 2011) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Henri Matisse (1984-1985) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Önskemuseet : the museum of our wishes : notre musée tel qu´il devrait être : museum unserer wünsche : [utställning i Moderna Museet, Stockholm : 26 december 1963 - 16 februari 1964] / ordnad av Moderna Museets VännerModerna klassiker : Moderna Museet c/o Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde : 28/9 2002 - 16/2 2003Henri Matisse : Moderna Museet, Stockholm : 3.11 1984 - 6.1 1985 Bibliography Sembat, Marcel, Henri Matisse, Les Cahiers d'Aujourd'hui, nr 4, april 1913, s 194. Sembat, Marcel, Matisse et son oeuvre, Paris 1920, s 10 (omtryckt 1921 med ytterligare illustrationer och titeln Trente reproductions de peintures et dessins précédées d'une étude critique par Marcel Sembat.) Sembat, Marcel, Matisse und sein Werk, Genius 2, part 2, 1920, s 194. Zervos, Christian m.fl., Henri Matisse, Paris och New York 1931, ill. 41. Zervos, Christian m.fl., L'oeuvre de Henri Matisse, Cahiers d'Art 5-6, 1931, s 26, ill. 48. Swane, Leo, Henri Matisse, Stockholm 1944, s 96, fig. 21. Barr, Alfred H. Jr, Matisse: His Art and His Public, New York 1951, s 144-145, 154-156, ill. 380. Escholier, Raymond, Matisse et Le Maroc, Le Jardin des Arts 24, October 1956, s 710. Haftmann, Werner, Malerei im 20 Jahrhundert, München, ill. nr 63, s 44. Fiala, Vlastimil, Henri Matisse, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia 1967, ill. (färg) 42. Guichard-Meili, Jean, Henri Matisse: Son oeuvre-son univers, Paris 1967, ill. s 73. Courthion, Pierre, "La conquête de la lumière", Hommage á Matisse, numéro spécial (1970) s 54. Luzi, Mario och Massimo Carrà, L'opera di Matisse dalla rivolta "fauve" all'intimismo 1904-1928, Milano 1971, s 93, ill. (färg) nr 26, ill. s 93. Izerghina, A., Henri Matisse: Paintings and Sculptures in Soviet Museums, Leningrad 1978 (nytryck 1986). ill. s 171. Gowing, Lawrence, Matisse, New York och Toronto 1979, s 121. Flam, Jack D., Matisse in Morocco, Connoisseur 211 (augusti 1982), s 80, ill. (färg) s 85. Schneider, Pierre och Massimo Carrà, Tout l' oeuvre peint de Matisse 1904-1928, Paris 1982, nr 182. Schneider, Pierre, Matisse, New York 1984, ill. (färg) s 462. Flam, Jack, Matisse: The Man and His Art 1896-1918, Ithaca och London 1986, s 314, 327, 331, 345, 349, 499-500, 505, ill. (färg) s 336. Flam, Jack, ed., Matisse: A Retrospective, New York 1988, ill (färg) nr 43. Cowart, Jack, Schneider, Pierre m fl, Matisse in Morocco, Washington 1990, s. 37, 41, 42, 68, 70,72, 82, 115, 209, 211, 212, 214, 217, ill. (färg), s 68. Bjurtström, Per, Nationalmuseum 1792-1992, Stockholm 1992, ill. s 217. Matisse 1904-1917, Centre Pompidou, Paris 1993, s. 309. Duthuit, Claude m fl, Matisse 'la révélation m'est venue de l'Orient', Roma Musei Capitolini, Florens 1997, s 51, ill. s 51. Taube, Maria, Kärleken och döden: Konst på Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2002, s 38, ill. s 39. Moderna Museet Stockholm, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, 1996-1997, ill. s 39. Moderna klassiker, Moderna Museet c/o Waldemarsudde, 2002-2003, ill. s 65.