More Matisse! Henri Matisse 147 High Resolution Images

Discover more of the amazing artistry of Henri Matisse with this second collection, featuring 147 high-resolution images not included in our original 104 image collection. Immerse yourself in this renowned artist's vivid colours, bold compositions, and unique perspectives.

If you don't already have our original 104 image collection, you can currently purchase both collections at the same time and save 25%!

Henri Matisse, renowned for his vibrant paintings, delicate papercuts, and expressive sketches, stands as a master of twentieth-century art. His evocative depictions of Nice, France, capture the region’s radiant light and colour, enriching his legacy with scenes of Mediterranean charm and creative innovation across diverse artistic media.

This download features a new collection of 147 hi-res images, in JPEG format, by the artist Henri Matisse, that are not included in our 104 image collection.

This collection features beautiful paintings done on and from the balconies of Nice, France, alongside those from Matisse’s time in North Africa. It also includes more of his vibrant paper cut-outs and several sketches, among them a striking self-portrait. Additionally, two magazine covers from the 1930s featuring Matisse are included.

The images are all 600dpi and range in size from 3060 pixels wide/tall to 6534 pixels wide/tall.

The pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you’d like, including commercial use.

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (1869-1954) was a French visual artist, known for his use of colour and original draughtsmanship.

Matisse is commonly regarded as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.

The intense colours of his works between 1900 and 1905 brought him notoriety as one of the Fauves (French for 'wild beasts'). Many of his finest works were created in the decade or so after 1906, when he developed a rigorous style that emphasised flattened forms and decorative pattern. In 1917, he relocated to a suburb of Nice on the French Riviera, and the more relaxed style of his work during the 1920s gained him critical acclaim as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. After 1930, he adopted a bolder simplification of form. When ill health in his final years prevented him from painting, he created an important body of work in cut paper collage.

Matisse was born in Northern France on New Year's Eve in 1869, the oldest son of a wealthy grain merchant. In 1887, he went to Paris to study law, working as a court administrator after gaining his qualification. He started to paint in 1889 after his mother brought him art supplies during a period of convalescence following an attack of appendicitis. He discovered 'a kind of paradise' as he later described it, and decided to become an artist, deeply disappointing his father.

In 1891, he returned to Paris to study art at the Académie Julian under William-Adolphe Bouguereau and at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts under Gustave Moreau. Initially he painted still lifes and landscapes in a traditional style, achieving reasonable proficiency.

In 1896, Matisse, an unknown art student at the time, visited the Australian painter John Russell on the island of Belle Ile off the coast of Brittany. Russell introduced him to Impressionism and to the work of Vincent van Gogh, who had been a friend of Russell, and gave him a Van Gogh drawing. Matisse's style changed completely, abandoning his earth-coloured palette for bright colours. He later said Russell was his teacher, and that Russell had explained colour theory to him. The same year, Matisse exhibited five paintings in the salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, two of which were purchased by the state.

With the model Caroline Joblau, he had a daughter, Marguerite, born in 1894. In 1898, he married Amélie Noellie Parayre; the two raised Marguerite together and had two sons, Jean (born 1899) and Pierre (born 1900). Marguerite and Amélie often served as models for Matisse.

See our Henri Matisse Video - Artwork in the Public Domain