Sophie Matisse

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sophie Matisse
Occupation	Painter
Date Of Birth	Feb 13, 1965(1965-02-13)
Age	59
Birthplace	Boston
Country	United States
Birth City	Massachusetts
Horoscope	Aquarius

Sophie Matisse Biography

Sophie Matisse is one of the most popular and richest Painter who was born on February 13, 1965 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Matisse’s father is artist and inventor Paul Matisse, a Harvard graduate. Her father, Paul’s grandfather was Modern art dealer Pierre Matisse, who had relocated into America during the 20th century. Pierre was the eldest child of the artist Henri Matisse, Sophie’s great-grandfather.

Sophie Alexina Victoire Matisse (born on 13 February 1965) is an American contemporary artist. Matisse was initially renowned due to the series she created that she called Missing Person paintings, in which she appropriated and elaborated on or subtracted from well-known works of art historical periods.

Matisse began studies in 1985 at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, but she dropped out after her first year. In 1990, she relocated to Paris and attended the École des Beaux-Arts, the same institution where her great-grandfather Henri Matisse had studied. She also bought supplies at the same art-supply store where he had shopped.

The Be Back in Five Minutes series gave Matisse her first widespread exposure as an artist, in her own right, and informed her work for years thereafter. In those paintings, Matisse reproduced the recognizable settings of famous paintings, always omitting the figures; as if the models had “stepped out for the moment”. Famous works of Vermeer also figured prominently in other early entries to the series; Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, The Art of Painting, and Girl with a Pearl Earring were all reinterpreted by Matisse in the late 1990s, minus the figures portrayed by Vermeer.

Matisse is born in Boston on the 13th of February 1965. She grew up at Cambridge, Massachusetts, having what is described as being a “hippie childhood”. Her father is artist Paul Matisse, whose grandfather was Henri Matisse. Matisse was diagnosed with “serious” dyslexia in her childhood, which she cured through her creative activities.

Sophie Matisse Net Worth

Sophie Matisse is one of the richest Painter from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sophie Matisse 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

His step-grandfather was painter Marcel Duchamp, who reinterpreted Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa in his L.H.O.O.Q. through the addition of a mustache. Duchamp was married to Matisse’s grandmother Alexina “Teeny” Matisse, the American in 1954, following the fact that they was divorced from Pierre Matisse had divorced. Matisse has frequently cited Duchamp as an influencer and once said “his presence stopped me from getting too serious”. Art critics have pointed out Duchamp’s “visual jokes” sometimes apparent in Matisse’s work as an indication of the influence of Duchamp.

Henri Matisse died in 1954 at the age of 85, which was eleven years prior to Sophie’s birth. Family members expressed concerns about Sophie’s potential as an artist of her own and suggested she adopt her great-grandmother, Amelie Pareyre, as her family name in order to stay away from constant comparisons of Henri Matisse. It was only after noting her family’s name on the walls of museums did Sophie when she was a tiny child, begin to think her great- grandfather might be “exceptional”.

Matisse lived with her grandmother Teeny Duchamp in France for a time. Teeny, after divorcing Pierre Matisse, had married the French artist Marcel Duchamp (Duchamp died in 1968). Studies at the École des Beaux-Arts were not easy for Matisse; not only facing imposed expectations of being an art student in France named “Matisse”, but also being an American lacking proficiency in reading and writing French. After three years Matisse was asked to leave. She did, however, meet the French artist Alain Jacquet while at École des Beaux- Arts, whom she married in 1992.

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Who is Sophie Matisse Dating?

According to our records, Sophie Matisse married to Alain Jacquet. As of December 1, 2023, Sophie Matisse’s is not dating anyone.

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Matisse was represented by Francis Naumann Fine Art, LLC, in New York City. from 2003 to 2020. Matisse is now represented by the Baahng Gallery in New York City.

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Sophie Ranked on the list of most popular Painter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Sophie Matisse celebrates birthday on February 13 of every year.

Matisse used Guerra Paint acrylics and painted on canvas, testing color combinations by first painting many small sketches. She kept true to the impact of Picasso’s original by painting it large-scale, approximately 8 by 20 feet (2.4 by 6.1 m). Her efforts yielded several paintings and various drawings, which culminated in her Sophie Matisse Does Guernica exhibition, early in 2003 in New York. One piece, 911 Guernica, uses Guernica as the motif to convey her own first hand experiences witnessing the terrorist attack on New York’s Twin Towers from her neighborhood near the site. Matisse’s Guernica exhibition was scheduled to coincide with the Museum of Modern Art’s dual survey exhibiting the works of both Picasso and Matisse.