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The artist himself later said he got his colour sense from his mother, who was herself an accomplished painter on porcelain, a fashionable art form at the time. The colours evidently left a lasting impression on Henri. She ran the section of her husband''s shop that sold housepaints, making up the customers'' orders and advising on colour schemes. Quentin for lycée.Īnna Heloise worked hard. Matisse later said: 'My mother loved everything I did.' He grew up in nearby Bohain-en-Vermandois, an industrial textile centre, until the age of ten, when his father sent him to St. Throughout the forty years of her marriage, she provided unwavering, rocklike support to her husband and her sons. 'My mother had a face with generous features,' said her son Henri, who always spoke of her with particular tenderness of the sensitivity. She had fair skin, broad cheekbones and a wide smile.

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Warmhearted, outgoing, capable and energetic, she was small and sturdily built with the fashionable figure of the period: full breasts and hips, narrow waist, neat ankles and elegant small feet. His mother, Anna Heloise Gerard, was a daughter of a long line of well-to-do tanners. Matisse’s father, Émile Hippolyte Matisse, was a grain merchant whose family were weavers. The coming of the railway had put Bohain on the industrial map, but people still travelled everywhere on foot or horseback. Matisse grew up in a world that was still detaching itself from a way of life in some ways unchanged since Roman times.

Matisse’s ancestors had lived in the area for centuries before the convulsive social and industrial upheavals of the nineteenth century.

Matisse said long afterwards that rain fell through a hole above the bed in which he was born. The house had two rooms, a beaten earth floor and a leaky roof. Henri Emile Benoît Matisse was born in a tiny, tumbledown weaver''s cottage on the rue du Chêne Arnaud in the textile town of Le Cateau-Cambrésis at eight o''clock in the evening on the last night of the year, 31 December 1869 (Le Cateau-Cambrésis is in the extreme north of France near the Belgian border). References : Artvalue - Succession Matisse Posthumous edition after the original paper cut-out with stamp of the Succession Matisse