Major Shows of Matisse Open This Year. Here’s a Refresher on the Essential Modernist Artist - ARTnews

Matisse once said that he was searching in art for “the same things, which I have perhaps realized by different means.”

Ripe fruit, luxurious fabrics, comely women, a window with a view of an ultramarine sea: the world of Henri Matisse is one of pleasures. Along with fellow modernist Pablo Picasso, he is one of the gi… [+10208 chars]

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