Sophie Alexina Victoire Matisse was born on February 13,1965 and is an American contemporary artist.
38 Facts About Sophie Matisse
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Sophie Matisse was born in Boston on February 13,1965, and was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, having what has been described as a "hippie childhood".
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Sophie Matisse's father is the sculptor Paul Matisse, whose grandfather was Henri Matisse.
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Sophie Matisse had "serious" dyslexia in her youth, which she remedied through creative pursuits.
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Sophie Matisse began studies in 1985 at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, but she dropped out after her first year.
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Sophie Matisse bought supplies at the same art-supply store where he had shopped.
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Sophie Matisse lived with her grandmother Teeny Duchamp in France for a time.
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Teeny, after divorcing Pierre Sophie Matisse, had married the French artist Marcel Duchamp.
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Sophie Matisse did meet the French artist Alain Jacquet while at Ecole des Beaux-Arts, whom she married in 1992.
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In 1996, Sophie Matisse moved to New York City, creating her studio in Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood, and soon began exhibiting her artwork.
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In those paintings, Sophie Matisse reproduced the recognizable settings of famous paintings, always omitting the figures; as if the models had "stepped out for the moment".
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In 2003, Sophie Matisse added Pablo Picasso's Guernica to the number of paintings she reinterpreted.
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Sophie Matisse followed her own color sensibilities, as opposed to mimicking those of her great-grandfather.
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Sophie Matisse used Guerra Paint acrylics and painted on canvas, testing color combinations by first painting many small sketches.
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Sophie Matisse kept true to the impact of Picasso's original by painting it large-scale, approximately 8 by 20 feet.
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Sophie Matisse's efforts yielded several paintings and various drawings, which culminated in her Sophie Matisse Does Guernica exhibition, early in 2003 in New York.
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Sophie Matisse was featured among other female artists of her generation such as Kiki Smith.
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Sophie Matisse's contribution was a "Be Back in 5 Minutes" interpretation of Gustave Courbet's erotic painting The Origin of the World, this time removing the 19th century French painter's graphically portrayed nude model, leaving only the rumpled bedsheets.
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Sophie Matisse began a new series of paintings in the Spring of 2004, which culminated in her third solo exhibition, the Zebra Stripe Paintings, debuting in New York in the latter months of 2005.
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Sophie Matisse appropriated historically significant artworks, this time superimposing her own imagery in the form of zebra stripes overlapping the originals.
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Sophie Matisse again appropriated one of her great-grandfather's artworks, this time overlaying his Blue Nude with her zebra stripes.
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Sophie Matisse has provided artwork in collaboration with business interests and in support of charitable causes.
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Sophie Matisse added her personal touch to fifty bottles of Kilian perfumes, hand-painting, signing and numbering every bottle and its box.
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Additionally, Sophie Matisse collaborated with @byKilian in December 2009 on 15 hand-painted, Special Edition perfume bottles, which were sold to key By Kilian clients.
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Sophie Matisse considered her participation "a tribute" to the game's presence within her family in general, and her upbringing personally.
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In 2010, Sophie Matisse participated in the New York installment of an international campaign produced by the non-profit group Sing For Hope.
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Sophie Matisse hand-painted four Kimball pianos, all of which had been donated for the cause, even painting the piano keys.
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Some, if not all, of Sophie Matisse's four were displayed in the lobby of Avery Fisher Hall and Lincoln Center promenade.
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Sophie Matisse was represented by Francis Naumann Fine Art, LLC, in New York City.
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Sophie Matisse is represented by the Baahng Gallery in New York City.
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In 1992, when she was 27, Sophie Matisse married Pop artist Alain Jacquet, whom she had met during her years at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris.
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The marriage produced a daughter, Gaia Jacquet-Sophie Matisse, born in 1993.
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Sophie Matisse later married Amar Zribi in St Martin FWI, in 2010.
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Sophie Matisse filed for divorce from Zribi in The Supreme Court of the State of New York on June 9,2020.
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Sophie Matisse was granted a divorce on June 16,2022.
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Sophie Matisse's father is the sculptor and inventor Paul Sophie Matisse, a Harvard graduate.
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Henri Matisse died in 1954, aged 85, eleven years before Sophie's birth.
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Sophie Matisse has cited Duchamp as an influence, once saying "his presence stopped me from getting too serious".