Biography of Henri Matisse

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The Master

1908

Opens the Académie Matisse which welcomes over a hundred students until 1911. Publishes Notes of a Painter, a foundational theoretical statement, translated and disseminated throughout Europe. First solo exhibition in New York at the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession.

1909

Paints La Danse and La Musique, the panels commissioned by the Russian collector Sergei Shchukin for his Moscow palace. Moves with his family to Issy-les-Moulineaux, a Paris suburb, where he buys a house. 

Meets the American aesthete Matthew Stewart Prichard who introduces him to Oriental art.