“It was in Ajaccio that I had my great wonder for the South that I did not yet know. Soon came to me as a revelation, the love of materials for themselves. I felt the passion for color develop in me. “
In February 1898, Henri Matisse and his wife Amélie landed in Ajaccio. They will stay there for six months. Six months during which the artist will paint frantically, mad with the light and the colors of the south which he then discovers.
In 2021, the Corsican Museum in Corte organized a large exhibition following the acquisition by the Corsican community of The sea in Corsica, the scoudpainted during this period. In all, around twenty works had been gathered for the occasion, some coming from far away.
Twenty paintings therefore, “But according to a letter written by Amélie, he painted 55”says François Blondel.
Between 700 and 800 paintings are quickly found, for 1,413 in total
At 69, the former business manager is now a art historian and patron of a publishing house specializing in this field. “I am also a collector and passionate about Albert Marquet and Henri Matisse. In 2018, I published a monograph of Marquet. And there is …
