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Henri Matisse

1869 - 1954

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Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French: [ɑ̃ʁi emil bənwa matis]; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Matisse has received more than 6,136,121 page views. His biography is available in 140 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 137 in 2019). Henri Matisse is the 18th most popular painter (up from 19th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from France and the 3rd most popular French Painter.

Henri Matisse is most famous for his use of color and expressive brushstrokes in his paintings.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Henri Matisse ranks 18 out of 1,421. Before him are Edvard Munch, Caravaggio, Francisco Goya, Sandro Botticelli, Diego Velázquez, and Paul Cézanne. After him are Paul Gauguin, Titian, Donatello, Gustav Klimt, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and Eugène Delacroix.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Henri Matisse ranks 3. Before him are Mahatma Gandhi and Grigori Rasputin. After him are Neville Chamberlain, André Gide, Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Karl Haushofer, Emma Goldman, Fritz Pregl, and Hans Spemann. Among people deceased in 1954, Henri Matisse ranks 3. Before him are Frida Kahlo and Alan Turing. After him are Enrico Fermi, Heinz Guderian, Colette, Robert Capa, Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Princess Märtha of Sweden, André Derain, Getúlio Vargas, and Alcide De Gasperi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Matisse ranks 26 out of 6,011. Before him are Alain Delon (1935), Émile Durkheim (1858), Honoré de Balzac (1799), Napoleon III (1808), Coco Chanel (1883), and Paul Cézanne (1839). After him are Alexandre Dumas (1802), Antoine Lavoisier (1743), Paul Gauguin (1848), Édith Piaf (1915), Louis XV of France (1710), and Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Henri Matisse ranks 3. Before him are Claude Monet (1840) and Paul Cézanne (1839). After him are Paul Gauguin (1848), Eugène Delacroix (1798), Édouard Manet (1832), Edgar Degas (1834), Jacques-Louis David (1748), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Gustave Courbet (1819), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864).

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