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Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse, The Serpentine, 1909.

Succession H. Matisse, Paris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

#2. Matisse: Painter as Sculptor
Dallas Museum of Art and Nasher Sculpture Center


One of those once in a lifetime shows, which touched on just about every significant moment in Matisse's career as a sculptor — the seated and reclining nudes, the heads of Jeannette, the series of four backs — and also threw in a few pivotal canvases like Blue Nude: Memory of Biskra. If you thought that Matisse treated sculpture as a minor sideline, you were wrong.