CENTRAL AND NORTH-WEST JOINT EVENT
We are meeting beforehand, for lunch, at 12:00 at the Landgasthof, Riehen. The number 6 or 2 tram (direct from Basel SBB) stops outside at the tram stop “Riehen Dorf”.
Featuring around 80 works from major European and American museums and private collections, the exhibition will highlight the development and diversity of the artist’s groundbreaking ways. It takes as its starting point Charles Baudelaire’s poem “Invitation to the Voyage” (1857). Many motifs and key themes of Matisse’s work echo those found in Baudelaire’s poem. Henri Matisse (1869-1954) ranks among the most famous exponents of modern art. His ground-breaking work has profoundly influenced generations of artists, from his contemporaries up to the present day. In freeing colour from the motif and simplifying forms, he re-defined painting and imbued art with a hitherto unknown lightness. Matisse was also an innovator in the realm of sculpture and in his late cut outs he devised a distinctive interplay of painting, drawing and sculpture.
Date: Wednesday, 23rd October 2024
Time: Lunch at 12:00, Museum at 14:00.
Cost: Self-paying (many Members have museum, TCS memberships, or Bank passes)
Reservations: Helen Stoeckli-Evans (Central)
Angie Meier-Jones (North West)
Using the Registration Form below or
Email: central@britishresidents.ch
Email: northwest@britishresidents.ch or mobile 079 322 44 52
By Monday, 14th October 2024 please