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Henri Matisse

1869 - 1954

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Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French: [ɑ̃ʁi emil bənwa matis]; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. The intense colourism of the works he painted between 1900 and 1905 brought him notoriety as one of the Fauves (French for "wild beasts"). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Matisse is the 17th most popular painter (down from 15th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from France (down from 19th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Painter.

Henri Matisse is most famous for his use of color and expressive brushstrokes in his paintings.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Henri Matisse ranks 17 out of 2,023. Before him are Caravaggio, Francisco Goya, Johannes Vermeer, Sandro Botticelli, Edvard Munch, and Diego Velázquez. After him are Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Giotto, and Donatello.

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Among people born in 1869, Henri Matisse ranks 2. Before him is Mahatma Gandhi. After him are Grigori Rasputin, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, André Gide, Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Maud of Wales, Neville Chamberlain, Gustaf Dalén, Frederick Trump, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and Fritz Pregl. Among people deceased in 1954, Henri Matisse ranks 2. Before him is Frida Kahlo. After him are Alan Turing, Enrico Fermi, Heinz Guderian, Robert Capa, Otto Diels, Princess Märtha of Sweden, Colette, Gideon Sundback, André Derain, and Getúlio Vargas.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Matisse ranks 23 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis XV of France (1710), Edward IV of England (1442), Alexandre Dumas (1802), Charles de Gaulle (1890), Nostradamus (1503), and Honoré de Balzac (1799). After him are Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Caracalla (188), Édith Piaf (1915), Antoine Lavoisier (1743), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), and Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (1122).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Henri Matisse ranks 2. Before him are Claude Monet (1840). After him are Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Paul Cézanne (1839), Paul Gauguin (1848), Édouard Manet (1832), Eugène Delacroix (1798), Edgar Degas (1834), Jacques-Louis David (1748), Gustave Courbet (1819), and Nicolas Poussin (1594).

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