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Barnes began collecting art, how he bought his first Matisse when he went to Paris and obtained it from Gertrude Stein, and how he created his magnificent collection which is now worth billions. The illustrations are eye candy. The story of that mural

• Title : Matisse in the Barnes Foundation: 3 Vol. Set
• Author : Karen Butler
• Rating : 4.93 (346 Vote)
• Publish : 2016-6-23
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 824 Pages
• Asin : 050023941X
• Language : English

Barnes began collecting art, how he bought his first Matisse when he went to Paris and obtained it from Gertrude Stein, and how he created his magnificent collection which is now worth billions. The illustrations are eye candy. The story of that mural's creation takes up an entire volume. Among his treasures were 59 paintings by the French artist Henri Matisse. There's the back story for every painting. The Barnes Foundation was created by a doctor who began collecting art about 100 years ago. There are hundreds of gorgeous illustrations, photos, etc. This is a fabulous set of books!. We learn about the collecting philosophy that Barnes employed and how that changed over the years. Every single Matisse painting in the collection is shown. This is a sensational set of books. This three volume set is jammed with information about how Dr. Barnes got to know Matisse and he commissioned the artist to paint a mural called "The Dance." You can see a photo on the cover of the artist working on the mural. He built a fabulous collection. We find out when Matisse painted each one, what they were about, and how and when they were obtained

Yve-Alain Bois is an author and professor of Art History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.Karen Butler is the assistant curator, Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, Saint Louis.Claudine Grammont is an independent scholar.Barbara Buckley is the head of the Conservation Department at the Barnes.Jennifer Mass is a senior scientist in the Analytical Department at Winterthur Museum, Delaware.

As it happens, Matisse in the Barnes Foundation is much more than a pretty face. If you can’t make it to Philadelphia, you couldn’t ask for a better guide to Matisse’s work than this three-volume set devoted to one of the modern period’s greats.” (Artnews) . Butler, you may never see the former Fauve’s art the same way again. Once you’ve read the 90,000-word essay by Yve-Alain Bois, as well as the insightful commentaries on all the paintings by independent art historians Claudine Grammont and Karen K. “Matisse in the Barnes Foundation is an 181-pound, 3-volume set with more than 600 sumptuous color reproductions and may be one of the most gorgeous coffee-table books you will ever own

An essay by editor Yve-Alain Bois addresses the evolution of The Dance and its role in Matisse’s career.

An essay by Karen Butler looks at what Barnes thought of Matisse; Claudine Grammont considers how and why he collected his work. A landmark volumethe first authoritative publication to cover in its entirety one of the most significant holdings of Matisse in the world.Matisse in the Barnes Foundation is a vibrant celebrationslip-cased and beautifully producedof the Barnes’s extraordinary Matisse collection; comprised of fifty-nine works from every stage of the artist’s career, it is among the most important in the world.

At the heart of the collection are Matisse’s most historically significant paintings, Le Bonheur de vivre, also called The Joy of Life, and The Dance, the monumental mural that Albert C. Barnes commissioned to fill the lunettes of the Foundation’s main gallery, transforming both the space and the artist’s career. The book includes major contributions by Barbara Buckley and Jennifer Mass on the artist’s technique and a report on the latest findings on the pigments used in Le Bonheur de vivre. 656 illustrations, 606 in color. The works themselves, sumptuously reproduced, are the subjects of