Henri matisse
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... By Jack Moore 9CD1 / M7 Meyerovich Gallery San Francisco (16 art works of Henri Matisse) Early and Later life He was born Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse in Le Cateau-Cambrésis on the 31st December 1869, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, and grew up in Bohain-en-Vermandois. In 1887 he went to Paris to study law. After getting his qualification he worked as a court administrator in his home town. Following an attack of appendicitis he took up painting during his period of recovery. After his recovery, he returned to Paris in 1891 to study art at the Académie Julian and became a student of Odilon Redon and Gustave Moreau. He was inspired by other painters at the time. The type of painting he did then was in the fauvist manner (lots of wild bright colours, making it simple and very abstract). His first exhibition was in 1901 and his first solo exhibition in 1904. His liking of bright and expressive













