News

Due to maintenance work, metro line 1 will be closed from 11th to 31st August 2025 between Charles de Gaulle - Étoile and La Défense. A replacement bus service will operate between these two stations in both directions.

Henri Matisse

  • 1869 - 1954
  • Born in 1869, in France

Crédit artiste : © Succession H. Matisse 2024 Crédit photographique : © The Morgan Library & Museum / Art Resource, NY/Scala, Florence

Henri Matisse began experimenting with "paper cut-outs" in the early 1930s for La Danse, the monumental project for the Barnes Foundation. Using scissors enabled Matisse to "draw in colour", or even "carve in colour". Using these gouache-coloured shapes, he studied different compositions by freely repositioning his figures.

In The Collection