An Hommage to Pierre Matisse: PARIS
Pierre Matisse and Joan Miró. An exemplary relationship that lasted 50 years
“I must say how moved I am by the courage and enthusiasm with which you are organising this exhibition which, and this is no time to be modest, may have great repercussions, driven by a clairvoyant man of action such as yourself.”
Letter from Joan Miró to Pierre Matisse (16th November 1936)
The exemplary relationship between Pierre Matisse and Joan Miró lasted 50 years. It enabled them both to write their own chapter in the history of art; in fact, as a politically engaged art dealer, he was arrested by the Spanish police in the middle of the war for having crossed the border with money intended to pay for a painting by Miró. Whilst Matisse played an essential role in Miró’s institutional success, especially by means of his first major retrospective at MoMA (1941), Miró, one of the instigators of Spanish informal art in the United States, used his reputation to promote the work of the members of the El Paso group across the pond.
“Personally, I think that there is only one way to be an art dealer, and that is to stay friends with your painters.”
Letter from Pierre Matisse to Joan Miró (17th June 1945)
“Four Spanish Painters”, an exhibition by Pierre Matisse which prefigured those at MoMA and the Guggenheim
“Personally, I think that there is only one way to be an art dealer, and that is to stay friends with your painters."
– Pierre Matisse
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