Matisse/Diebenkorn
11 Mar - 29 May 2017
Left: Henri Matisse, The Blue Window, 1913; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund; © Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; photo: digital image; © The Museum of Modern Art / Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY
Right: Richard Diebenkorn, Woman on a Porch, 1958; New Orleans Museum of Art, museum purchase through the National Endowment for the Arts Matching Grant; © the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
Right: Richard Diebenkorn, Woman on a Porch, 1958; New Orleans Museum of Art, museum purchase through the National Endowment for the Arts Matching Grant; © the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
Left: Henri Matisse, Studio, Quai Saint-Michel, 1916; the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; © Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Right: Richard Diebenkorn, Urbana #4, 1953; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, gift of Julianne Kemper Gilliam; © the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
Right: Richard Diebenkorn, Urbana #4, 1953; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, gift of Julianne Kemper Gilliam; © the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
Left: Henri Matisse, Notre-Dame, A Late Afternoon, 1902; collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr; © Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Right: Richard Diebenkorn, Ingleside, 1963; Grand Rapids Art Museum, museum purchase; © the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
Right: Richard Diebenkorn, Ingleside, 1963; Grand Rapids Art Museum, museum purchase; © the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
Left: Henri Matisse, Goldfish and Palette, 1914; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, gift and bequest of Florene M. Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx; © Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Right: Richard Diebenkorn, Urbana #6, 1953; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, museum purchase, Sid W. Richardson Foundation Endowment Fund; © the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
Right: Richard Diebenkorn, Urbana #6, 1953; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, museum purchase, Sid W. Richardson Foundation Endowment Fund; © the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
Left: Henri Matisse, Femme au chapeau (Woman with a Hat), 1905; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, bequest of Elise S. Haas; © Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Right: Richard Diebenkorn, Seated Figure with Hat, 1967; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, gift of the Collectors Committee and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Rubin; © the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
Right: Richard Diebenkorn, Seated Figure with Hat, 1967; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, gift of the Collectors Committee and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Rubin; © the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
Left: Henri Matisse, View of Notre Dame, 1914; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired though the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest and the Henry Ittleson, A. Conger Goodyear, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sinclair Funds, and the Anna Erickson Levene Bequest given in memory of her husband, Dr. Phoebus Aaron Theodor Levene; © Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Right: Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park #79, 1975; Philadelphia Museum of Art, purchased with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and with funds contributed by private donors; © the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
Right: Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park #79, 1975; Philadelphia Museum of Art, purchased with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and with funds contributed by private donors; © the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
Richard Diebenkorn, Seated Woman, 1967; collection of Gretchen and John Berggruen; © the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
MATISSE/DIEBENKORN
11 March – 29 May 2017
Presenting a new view of two of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary painters, Matisse/Diebenkorn is the first major exhibition to explore the profound inspiration Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993) found in the work of Henri Matisse (1869–1954). It brings together 100 extraordinary paintings and drawings—40 by Matisse and 60 by Diebenkorn—that reveal the connections between the two artists in subject, style, color, and technique.
The exhibition unfolds across the arc of Diebenkorn’s career—from early abstractions, through his Bay Area figurative years, to his majestic Ocean Park series—all in direct dialogue with works that he knew and admired by Matisse. Diebenkorn grew up in San Francisco, and first discovered Matisse as a Stanford University art student in the early 1940s. Over the next four decades, he pursued a serious study of the great French modernist’s work, drawing from his example to forge a style entirely his own.
Matisse/Diebenkorn is co-organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Baltimore Museum of Art.
11 March – 29 May 2017
Presenting a new view of two of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary painters, Matisse/Diebenkorn is the first major exhibition to explore the profound inspiration Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993) found in the work of Henri Matisse (1869–1954). It brings together 100 extraordinary paintings and drawings—40 by Matisse and 60 by Diebenkorn—that reveal the connections between the two artists in subject, style, color, and technique.
The exhibition unfolds across the arc of Diebenkorn’s career—from early abstractions, through his Bay Area figurative years, to his majestic Ocean Park series—all in direct dialogue with works that he knew and admired by Matisse. Diebenkorn grew up in San Francisco, and first discovered Matisse as a Stanford University art student in the early 1940s. Over the next four decades, he pursued a serious study of the great French modernist’s work, drawing from his example to forge a style entirely his own.
Matisse/Diebenkorn is co-organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Baltimore Museum of Art.