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- This studio would be the first workplace Matisse invented entirely for himself, following a decade spent making art in the proverbial garret, rooms claimed within small apartments, and adapted spaces in two former convents.
www.moma.org/magazine/articles/725The First Studio Henri Matisse Invented Entirely for Himself
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Jun 25, 2024 · Located south-west of Paris and along the Seine, the city of Issy-les-Moulineaux, which has 69, 941 inhabitants spread over 425 hectares today, has a rich history spanning more than 2000 years. A 5th century necropolis (near the present-day Saint-Benoît church) is the oldest archaeological evidence, while the etymological roots hypothesized ...
Apr 27, 2022 · The two-page letter outlines the specifications for a freestanding studio to be erected on a parcel of land adjoining Matisse’s newly rented house in the town of Issy-les-Moulineaux, located along the Seine River barely four miles southwest of central Paris.
Sep 30, 2024 · Issy-les-Moulineaux, town, suburb of Paris, in Hauts-de-Seine département, Île-de-France région, north-central France. It is bounded to the northeast by the city limits of Paris. The town’s manufacturing industries include electrical equipment, chemicals, and printing and publishing, but in general industry has declined in Issy.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Issy-les-Moulineaux (French pronunciation: [isi le mulino]) is a commune in the southwestern suburban area of Paris, France, lying on the left bank of the river Seine. Its citizens are called Isséens in French. [ 3 ] It is one of Paris's entrances and is located 6.6 km (4.1 mi) from Notre Dame Cathedral, which is considered Kilometre Zero in ...
Issy-les-Moulineaux’s history goes back 9000 years when prehistoric man started living on the Issy plain, succeeded by the monks of Saint-Germain in the Middle Ages, reaching its height in the 17th century with great members of the Court such as the famous « reine Margot », the wife of King Henry IV. The town was also the scene of terrible ...
Jan 26, 2022 · The greatest French and international architects – including the likes of Christian de Portzamparc, Jean Nouvel, Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Daniel Libeskind and Winy Maas – transformed Issy-les-Moulineaux from a typical early 20th-century industrial suburb into the thoroughly modern city at the gates of Paris that you’ll find today.
Henri Matisse The Back (III) Issy-les-Moulineaux, by May 13, 1913 - early fall 1916. "Fit your parts into one another and build up your figure as a carpenter does a house. Everything must be constructed—built up of parts that make a unit; a tree like a human body, a human body like a cathedral."
