Luxe, Calme et Volupté

Luxe, Calme et Volupté ("Luxury, Calm and Pleasure") by Henri Matisse, 1904. Musée National d'Art Moderne. 37 x 46 in

Luxe, Calme et Volupté is an oil painting by Henri Matisse. It was painted in 1904, after a summer spent working in St. Tropez on the French Riviera alongside the neo-Impressionist painters Paul Signac and Henri Edmond Cross.^[1] The painting is Matisse's most important work in which he used the Divisionist technique advocated by Signac, which Matisse had first adopted after reading Signac's essay, "D'Eugène Delacroix au Néo-impressionisme" in 1898.^[2] Signac purchased the work, which was exhibited in 1905 at the Salon des Indépendants. Matisse subsequently abandoned the Divisionist technique.

The painting's title comes from the poem L'Invitation au voyage, from Charles Baudelaire's volume Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil):

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References

• UCLA Art Council, Leymarie, J., Read, H. E., & Lieberman, W. S. (1966). Henri Matisse retrospective 1966. Los Angeles: UCLA Art Gallery. OCLC 83777407

v t e Henri Matisse Works (List) Woman Reading (1894)  · Le Mur Rose (Landscape, the Pink Wall) (1898)  · Notre-Dame, une fin d'après-midi (A Glimpse of Notre-Dame in the Late Afternoon) (1902)  · Luxe, Calme et Volupté (Luxury, Calm and Pleasure) (1904)  · La Raie Verte (The Green Line) (1905)  · The Open Window (1905)  · Woman with a Hat (1905)  · Les toits de Collioure (1905)  · Landscape at Collioure (1905)  · Le bonheur de vivre (1906)  · The Young Sailor II (1906)  · Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt (1906)  · Madras Rouge (1907)  · Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra) (1907)  · The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room) (1908)  · Game of Bowls (1908)  · Bathers with a Turtle (1908)  · Dance (1910)  · Music (1910)  · Still Life with Geraniums (1910)  · L'Atelier Rouge (1911)  · The Conversation (1908–1912)  · Zorah on the Terrace (1912)  · Window at Tangier (1912)  · Le Rifain assis (1912)  · View of Notre-Dame (1914)  · Woman on a High Stool (1914) · Le rideau jaune (The Yellow Curtain) (1915)  · The Window (1916)  · The Painter and His Model (1917)  · Interior A Nice (1920)  · Odalisque with Raised Arms (1923)  · Yellow Odalisque (1926)  · The Dance II (mural) (1932)  · Robe violette et Anémones (1937)  · Woman in a Purple Coat (1937)  · La Blouse Roumaine (1940)  · Le Lanceur De Couteaux (1943)  · Annelies, White Tulips and Anemones (1944)  · L'Asie (1946)  · Deux fillettes, fond jaune et rouge (1947)  · The Plum Blossoms (1948)  · Beasts of the Sea (1950)  · The Sorrows of the King (1952)  · Black Leaf on Green Background (1952)  · La Négresse (1952)  · Blue Nude II (1952)  · The Snail (1953)  · Le Bateau (1953) Other works Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence (Chapel of the Rosary)  • Jazz (book) Shows Salon d'Automne Movement Fauvism Teachers William-Adolphe Bouguereau  • Gustave Moreau  • John Peter Russell Collectors Sergei Shchukin  • Gertrude Stein  • Leo Stein  • Albert C. Barnes  • Cone sisters Family Pierre Matisse  • Paul Matisse Wikimedia  Matisse at Wiktionary  •  Matisse at Wikibooks  •  Matisse at Wikiquote  •  Matisse at Wikisource  •  Matisse at Commons  •  Matisse at Wikinews

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