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1915 20 January–27 February: Matisse exhibition, organized by Walter Pach, at Montross Gallery, New York; in addition to 14 paintings, 11 sculptures and 5 drawings, 25 etchings (all but one of 1914), 2 woodcuts (1906) and 17 lithographs (some early, some recent) are included. Spring–summer: Matisse sells his prints in an effort to raise money to send food to prisoners taken by the Germans from Bohain-en-Vermandois, his home village near Le Cateau. In June a large group of prints is bought by Jacques Doucet.
Summer: At Issy-les-Moulineaux, works extensively on prints.
1925 Autumn: On return to Nice from a visit to Amsterdam, executes a series of lithographs of odalisques. Also does the series Dix danseuses published as an album by Galerie d’Art Contemporain, Paris, in 1927. 1927 24 January–4 February: Exhibition of drawings and lithographs at Bernheim-Jeune, Paris. 1928 January: Exhibition of Matisse drawings, etchings, and lithographs at Leicester Galleries, London. June–October: Exhibits 40 paintings, 6 sculptures, 13 prints and drawings at 16th Venice Biennale.
1916 18 November–10 December: Matisse is represented with 4 paintings, 10 drawings and 10 etchings in Den franske utstilling i Kunstnerforbundet exhibition in Oslo, organized by the Norwegian dealer and painter Walther Halvorsen, who had been a student at the Académie Matisse.
1928–29 In Nice, in addition to painting, drawing and sculpture, Matisse produces some 125 etchings and drypoints within a few months, working from a model and devoted to many variations on the same theme.
1929 3–14 June: Exhibition Quarante lithographies originales de Henri-Matisse at Galerie BernheimJeune.
Matisse spends winter in Nice for the first time; until the 1930s he generally spends summers in Paris and/or Issy-les-Moulineaux and winters in Nice.
1922–29 Matisse’s most prolific period as a printmaker 1922 Resumes work on stone, prompted by a plan by Editions Frapier, to do a series of volumes devoted to peintres-graveurs. 1923 20–31 October: Solo exhibition at BernheimJeune, Paris, Gravures d’Henri Matisse.
After 1930 Matisse’s principal work as a printmaker is for illustrated books 1930 15 February–19 March: Large solo exhibition at the Thannhauser gallery, Berlin, includes 83 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and many prints. March–June: Travel (via the USA) to Tahiti. 1931 3 November–6 December: Retrospective exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, organized by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., includes 70 paintings, 13 sculptures, 54 drawings, 5 monotypes and 2 woodcuts.