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In 1951, when he had just completed the last major project of his life, the Chapelle du Rosaire at Vence, Matisse summed up close on fifty years of work in these few words: "For me this chapel is the culmination of an entire working life and the flowering of a huge effort that has been heartfelt and arduous."

The only working life of an artist to match his in longevity was that of his contemporary, Picasso. But unlike the latter, Matisse produced an oeuvre subservient to a single idea: the search for a balance of colours and forms; by the end of his life, he succeeded in imprinting this upon matter, though, as he himself made plain, it was not without effort.

Indeed we learn from Matisse that from the first picture that got him noticed, Luxe, calme et volupté, in 1904, all the way to the chapel at Vence, the simplicity, freshness and the immediately striking brilliance that characterise his work came into being only as a result of much deep thought.
In order to reconcile colour with drawing through his gouache-painted cutouts, he had to deploy sculpture and flatness of colour in turn, in other words abstracting colour from design and vice versa, so as to circumscribe their respective potencies.
So that "art and decoration" would be "just one and the same thing", he studied architecture and saw how painting can transfigure it.
Finally, for painting to become that "art of balance, purity and serenity, with no troubling or disquieting subjects, so that for any mental worker, for example the businessman just as much as the artistic man of letters, it can be a soothing influence on the brain, rather the way a good armchair gives him relaxation from physical tiredness" (as he observed in 1908), Matisse pursued his original intuition through the great currents of art history over half a century: divisionism, fauvism and abstraction - without ever getting lost.
He had to travel a great deal too: to Brittany and the south of France, opening himself to Eastern influences on a trip to Morocco, visiting America and Oceania.

At the end of this odyssey through colour and ornamentalism, for the artists of the generation that came after him, both in the US and in Europe, Matisse became what André Masson called "the oasis of Matisse"; for the American abstract painters of the Fifties and Sixties, from Rothko to Kelly, from Sam Francis to Robert Motherwell; for Hantaï and Viallat in France in the Sixties - all of whom drew their source of inspiration from the freshness of his œuvre.

1904
Matisse's first exhibition, at the Ambroise Vollard gallery, Paris.

1905
Luxe, calme et volupté, painted during the previous summer at St-Tropez, is exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants and bought by Signac. Other canvases are presented at the Salon d'Automne alongside works by Derain, Vlaminck, Marquet and others in a room which the art critic Louis Vauxcelles, the originator of the term "Cubism", dubs "la cage aux fauves" (the wild beasts' cage). A new movement is born, with Matisse as its leader.

1906
Matisse stays for a time at Biskra in Algeria, and at Collioure, where he is fascinated by the Mediterranean landscape.

1907
Having acquired a degree of fame, he teaches in a school set up by a group of admirers.

1908
At his New York gallery, the "291", Alfred Stieglitz organises the first exhibition of Matisse's work in the United States.

1909
The Russian collector Shchukin commissions two decorative panels from him: La Danse and La Musique.

1910
Retrospective exhibition at the Bernheim-Jeune gallery, Paris.

1911
Matisse travels to Seville, Collioure and Moscow, where he studies the icons, then spends the winter of 1911-1912 at Tangiers; he discovers the dazzling light of Morocco.

1913
The paintings done in Morocco are exhibited in Paris along with recent work, at the same time as 17 works are hung at the great international exhibition, the Armory Show, in New York.

1914
When war is declared, in spite of having volunteered Matisse is not mobilised. He settles in Collioure where he becomes the friend of the most intellectual of the Cubist painters, Juan Gris.

1918
The Paul Guillaume gallery organises an exhibition which compares his works with Picasso's.

1920
Matisse designs the sets and costumes for Diaghilev's ballet, Le Chant du rossignol, with music by Stravinsky.

1924
First major retrospective in Copenhagen.

1927
Matisse is awarded the prestigious Carnegie Prize.

1930
He embarks on his trip to Tahiti, with New York and San Francisco as ports of call.
He begins work on illustrating Mallarmé's poetry, and accepts Doctor Barnes's commission for three decorative panels for his Merion Foundation in Pennsylvania.

1937
Diaghilev's Ballets Russes commission a new set from him for Rouge et Noir.

1938
Matisse goes to live at the Hôtel Régina in Cimiez, where he is to produce the bulk of his final masterpieces.

1941
Major surgery leaves him an invalid; he works lying down, with the help of assistants.

1944
His wife and daughter are arrested for involvement in the Resistance. Matisse, who has stayed in the South of France, illustrates Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal.

1947
Publication of Jazz by the publisher Tériade.

1948
He begins work on the decoration of the Chapelle du Rosaire for the Dominican nuns at Vence; this will be inaugurated by Father Couturier in 1951.

1950
Matisse is prize-winning artist at the 25th Venice Biennale.

1952
Opening of the Matisse Museum at Cateau-Cambrésis, the town where Matisse was born.

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