Jay Fisher, MATISSE DRAWINGS C. 1930: A CHANGE IN PRACTICE – Matisse Symposium
Channel: Barnes Foundation
Date: 2016-11-21

This talk will contrast two meaningful manifestations of Matisse's drawing practice contemporary with the Barne's mural project: the Baltimore Museum's 1931-32 presentation maquette for Mallarmé's L'Après-midi d'un faune, and a more recently acquired dossier of preparatory drawings, c.1929–31 illuminating the artist's compositional trials in the painting of the Yellow Dress.

Jay Fisher, chief curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art, has organized important exhibitions of Matisse, including Matisse: Painter as Sculptor and Matisse as Printmaker, and has written essays on the artist's graphics for their catalogues. In 2015, he contributed an essay to the catalogue of the Morgan Library's exhibition, Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts. 

Inspired by the Foundation’s catalogue Matisse in the Barnes Foundation (http://bit.ly/MatisseBarnes), edited by Yve-Alain Bois and published in December 2015, this symposium brings together leading international scholars to examine Matisse in the context of the history of modernism.