Henri Matisse

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Henri Matisse. La Japonaise: Woman beside the Water. Collioure, summer 1905. Oil and pencil on canvas. 13 3/4 × 11" (35 × 28 cm). Purchase and anonymous gift. 709.1983. © 2024 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Painting & Sculpture

In his Paris studio with its windows looking out over a monastery garden, in 1908 Matisse created one of his most important works of the period 1908-1913: The Red Room. The artist himself called this a "decorative panel" and it was intended for the dining room in the Moscow mansion of the famous Russian collector Sergey Shchukin. Matisse turned to a motif common in the works created that year: a room decorated with vases, fruits and flowers. Yet, as he wrote in 1908, "the basis of my…

Henri Matisse - Henri Matisse - portrait facing wearing a dinner jacket and bow tie: Vintage Silver Gelatin print, 1939, verso is a stamp from Roger Viollet, the film agancy. This is part of a series released by Lipnitzki at a later date.

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