With this painting, Matisse captures the Mediterranean sunlight and saves it for us. The radiant ‘La Séance du matin’ is one of the most important works from Matisse’s Nice period. Here, Specialist Scott Niichel explores this compelling, hopeful canvas. After arriving in Nice at the end of the war, Matisse is so struck by the light and beauty of his new surroundings that his singular pursuit becomes depicting that light in paint. ‘La Séance du matin’ highlights a radical synthesis of light, colo

Un Beau Matin d'Été by Henri Matisse

Mosquito Lithograph by Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse: 1946 Documentary Footage directed by François Campaux #art #artist #history

Matisse is a lesson on fate #art

He Couldn’t Paint Anymore… So He Invented a New Way to Do It #shorts

Impossible to get tickets. Packed with people. One of the most exceptional exhibits I have ever seen. Matisse at the Grand Palais. First retrospective of this scale in France in over fifty years. 300-plus works from MoMA, the Met, the Fondation Barnes, and the Centre Pompidou — paintings, drawings, cut-out gouaches, textiles, and stained glass spanning a career that refused to stop evolving. The story that stayed with me: Matisse was bedridden at 80, unable to paint. So he picked up scissors and