Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse
Photo of Henri Matisse by Carl Van Vechten, 1933.
Birth name	Henri Matisse
Born	December 31, 1869(1869-12-31) Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Died	November 3, 1954 (aged 84) Nice, France
Nationality	French
Field	painting, printmaking, sculpture, drawing, collage
Movement	Fauvism, Modernism
Famous works	Harmony in Red, 1908

Henri Matisse (December 31, 1869 – November 3, 1954) was a French artist, noted for his use of color and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. As a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but principally as a painter, Matisse is one of the best-known artists of the twentieth century. Although he was initially labeled as a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s, he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting.^[1] His mastery of the expressive language of color and drawing is apparent, in a body of work spanning over a half-century, and won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.