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Picasso once declared that ‘No one has ever looked at Matisse’s painting more carefully than I, and no one has looked at mine more carefully than he.’
words Robyn Phillips
Indeed, existing side by side, creating furiously through the mists of the violent, revolutionary dawn of the new century, the two most potent forces of Modern art were at once each other’s greatest admirer and foremost rival.
Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, the seminal architects of art’s post 19th century evolution, found no greater challenge, nor motivation, than the work and imagination of the other man.
Their relationship endured until Matisse’s death in 1954 – a deep friendship steeped in mutual reverence and affection, but peppered with flares of antagonism as they battled for supremacy. Many of the most celebrated artworks of modern times are indebted to this fruitful rivalry, which drove both men to take risks they would not have thought of were it not for the inspiration and challenge
