This exhibition of almost objects, the first ever to be dedicated to the Renaissance in Lyon, presents the largest possible panorama of artistic expression in the city during that period.
Opening times Daily between 10am and 6pm except tuesdays and bank holidays, and Fridays between Visual resources for the press Please contact us to access our press resources. It includes paintings, illuminated manuscripts, pieces of furniture, gold and silversmithery, majolica, enamels and medals and textiles.
Pour la Staatliche Kunsthalle de Karlsruhe Prof. Alexander Eiling, conservateur Dr. This continuous practice in the privacy of his studio was the laboratory for his work as a painter and for his sculpture β Matisse often compared himself to a juggler or an acrobat, daily maintaining the flexibility of his instrument of work. The exhibition illustrates the main moments in this artistic journey, arranged in fourteen thematic and chronological sequences: from the apprenticeship years at the very start of the 20th century, through to the studies for the chapel of the Rosary in Vence , the final masterpiece and culmination of an entire lifetime for Matisse.
In the exhibition, each room offers a dialogue between drawings and paintings, etchings and sculptures, with works echoing each other and restoring something of the atmosphere of his various studios: Quai Saint Michel, in Paris from , Issy-les-Moulineaux from , Nice from until his death in , with the exception of which Matisse spent in Vence.
Henri Matisse is twenty-one years old when he goes to train in Paris. Copying gives him an occasional income until , but is above all an essential exercise in the mastery of his craft. While Matisse had always assumed an artistic affinity with the old masters, in he casts off the weight of the past and escapes from it in all the genres he pursues: the self-portrait, landscapes from nature, or working from life with a model. In the early days, his work appears to be a long journey; he works from the major artists of the past and also with his contemporaries - he admires and challenges by copying, reworking and constantly questioning.
