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Matisse in Morocco : A Journey of Light and Color by Jeff Koehler (2025, Hardcover)

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Matisse in Morocco by Jeff Koehler. In winter of 1912, Henri Matisse—forty-two, nearing mid-career, and yet to find lasting critical acceptance, public admiration, or financial security since exploding to the forefront of the avant-garde in 1905 with his iconoclastic Fauve paintings—was struggling.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPegasus Books

ISBN-101639369090

ISBN-139781639369096

eBay Product ID (ePID)8072087136

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Book TitleMatisse in Morocco : a Journey of Light and Color

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2025

TopicHistory / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Africa / Morocco, Artists, Architects, Photographers

IllustratorYes

GenreArt, Travel, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorJeff Koehler

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight18.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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ReviewsKoehler has the polymath's curiosity for everything, as well as the writer's ability to listen to and retell a good story., In time, the work Matisse produced in Tangier would excite a near-religious devotion in many art lovers, who would come to feel--and still feel--that the artist never did anything more splendid in the line of color expression. Clearly the author is following literally in Matisse's footsteps. Every detail counts; vivification is the aim; analytical musings would be otiose. Mr. Koehler refrains from criticism or interpretation: He is a pilgrim exploring a shrine, and nothing escapes his benignant gaze. Mr. Koehler wants to know everything, and though we may find their treatment saddening, we may also be thankful for his account.

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal759.4

SynopsisThe remarkable and little-known story of Henri Matisse and his groundbreaking time in Morocco, a fertile period that transformed his art and cemented his legacy. In winter of 1912, Henri Matisse--forty-two, nearing mid-career, and yet to find lasting critical acceptance, public admiration, or financial security since exploding to the forefront of the avant-garde in 1905 with his iconoclastic Fauve paintings--was struggling. Once the vanguard leader, the Parisian avant-garde now considered him passé. His important early collectors, including Gertrude and Leo Stein, had stopped buying his work and were fully championing Picasso, and he had exhibited little in the last few years. In the face of Cubism that was now dominating the art scene, Matisse needed to get away from Paris in order to advance his distinctive artistic vision. Almost on a whim, he went to Tangier. Matisse had already been profoundly inspired by Islamic art, and was primed for his arrival in the Moroccan city where such art was integrated into everyday life. Despite the challenges of rain, insomnia, depression, and finding models, the sojourn was such a success he returned the following winter, which would lead to even greater artistic triumph. Matisse in Morocco tells the story of the artist's groundbreaking time in Tangier and how it altered Matisse's development as a painter and indelibly marked his work for the next four decades. Through Koehler's research and travel, we experience Matisse's time in Tangier, the paintings and their subjects, his relationships with his wife Amélie and his two important collectiors, and then come to understand the impact Morocco--its light, colors, culture, and artistic traditions--had on his art. From Landscape Viewed From a Window , to Zorah on the Terrace , from Kasbah Gate to the dream-like tableau Moroccan Café , these works from Morocco are now recognized as some of the most significant and dazzling of Matisse's illustrious career., The remarkable and little-known story of Henri Matisse and his groundbreaking time in Morocco, a fertile period that transformed his art and cemented his legacy.