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OCR: LIFE Matisse, Henri (1869-1954). French painter, sculptor, illustrator and designer; one of the most original creative forces in early 20th century art. Influenced by Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and later Cubism, he developed a style characterized by surface pattern, strong, sinuous line and brilliant color. Among his favored subjects were odalisques (women of the harem), bathers, and dancers; for example, "The Dance" (1910, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg). Later works include pure abstracts, as in his collages of colored paper shapes ("gouaches decoupées") and the designs (1949-51) for the decoration of a chapel for the Matisse Dominican convent in Vence, near Nice. He also designed sets and costumes for Diaghilev's "Ballets Russes."

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