David Royle
DAVID ROYLE - PAINTINGS
Moving Matisse's furniture and other paintings
June 2018
Matisse worked through the Second World War and the German occupation of France. Little of this political and social upheaval showed in his paintings. Beginning in 2004 I took images of some of Matisse's furniture, his "comfortable armchair" and put them into different, more agitated contexts.
These famous photographs by Héléne Adant (Paris) were taken in Matisse's house, Le Rêve, in the south of France.
Above: "Strange Weather" 2007 137 x 137 cm
Right : "Le Rêve Perturbé" 2004 183 x 137 cm
Right : "Le Rêve Perturbé" 2004 183 x 137 cm
"Three Armchairs for Mr.M." 2004 152.4 x 152.4 cm
"Raft" 2005 114.3 x 91.5 cm
"Sunbeam" 2007 114.3 x 91.5 cm
"Moonbeam" 2007 152.5 x 101.5 cm
"Night Vision" 2003 122 x 152.4 cm