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An Essay on Matisse

An Essay on Matisse
Directed by	Perry Wolff
Produced by	Kenneth Mandel
Edited by	Andrew Morreale
Production company	Great Projects Film Company
Distributed by	PBS
Release date	1996 (1996)
Country	United States
Language	English

An Essay on Matisse is a 1996 American short documentary film on artist Henri Matisse directed by Perry Wolff. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.^[1]^[2]

References

^ "NY Times: An Essay on Matisse". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2012. Archived from the original on October 16, 2012. Retrieved December 6, 2008.
^ "The 69th Academy Awards (1997) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved October 23, 2011.

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v t e Henri Matisse
Works	Woman Reading (1894) Landscape, the Pink Wall (1898) Academy Study of a Man (1900-1901) A Glimpse of Notre-Dame in the Late Afternoon (1902) Luxury, Calm and Pleasure (1904) The Green Stripe (1905) The Open Window (1905) Woman with a Hat (1905) View of 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) Portrait of Greta Moll (1908) Dance (1910) Music (1910) Still Life with Geraniums (1910) The Red Studio (1911) The Conversation (1908–1912) Goldfish (1912) Zorah on the Terrace (1912) Window at Tangier (1912) Seated Riffian (1912) Arab Coffeehouse (1912–1913) View of Notre-Dame (1914) Woman on a High Stool (1914) The Yellow Curtain (1915) Bathers by a River (1917) The Painter and His Model (1917) The Music Lesson (1917) The Piano Lesson (1918) Odalisque with Raised Arms (1923) Yellow Odalisque (1926) The Dance II (1932) Purple Robe and Anemones (1937) Woman in a Purple Coat (1937) La Blouse Roumaine (1940) Annelies, White Tulips and Anemones (1944) Asia (1946) Young Woman in White on a Red Background (1946) The Knife Thrower (1947) 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) The Snail (1953) The Boat (1953)
Series	The Back Series (1909–1930) Goldfish paintings and etchings (1912–1929) Blue Nudes (1952)
Chapels	Chapel of the Rosary
Art books	Jazz (1947 book)
People	Pierre Matisse (son) Paul Matisse (grandson) Sophie Matisse (great-granddaughter) Lydia Delectorskaya (model) Gustave Moreau (teacher)
Museums	Matisse Museum (Le Cateau) Musée Matisse (Nice)
Related	Fauvism An Essay on Matisse (1996 documentary) Matisse (crater)

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