Acrylic on canvas

Signature on the back

50 x 70 x 2 cm.

18 x 24 x 0.78 inch.

Unique

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The Famous French Collection

ainter, sculptor, engraver, draughtsman - Henri Matisse did all of it.

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From 1906, he built a visual language of flattened forms and decorative pattern that nobody had seen before. He moved to the hills above Nice in 1917 and kept reinventing. Each decade a different simplification, each one bolder than the last.

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When illness finally stopped him from painting, he picked up scissors and paper.

The cut-outs are now among the most celebrated works of his life.