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For the first time, Matisse visited North Africa in 1906 – by his own admission, in order to “see the desert with his own eyes.” In 1912 he traveled there

The picture is filled with a mysterious moonlit night – a table by the window belonging to a woman, as indicated by the decorations on the table; perfume bottles, flowers…

The painting “Joy of Life” is in the private collection of Barnes, the rules of which prohibited reproduction in color until 1992. Now that this ban has been lifted, the

One of the most vivid, even dazzling paintings by Matisse is the “Red Room”. It depicts the interior of a room in which a woman lays the table. The compositional

The composition “Still Life with Eggplants” is based on the combination of different plans. Matisse abandons the perspective and lays out local color patches on the canvas. In this sense,

Matisse portrayed the boat under sail and the reflection that can be seen in the water. At first, no one could understand what is depicted here. It came to a

The “Eastern” footprint in the works of Matisse is unusually bright. Impressed by the trip to the same Algeria, completed in 1906, the artist became interested in linear ornaments of

The painting “Madame Matisse” was painted by the artist in 1907. Here he depicted his wife – Madame Matisse. It must be said that when the canvas was presented for

The painting “Red fishes” is located at the junction of two stylistic trends – impressionism and fauvism. Moreover, if you align the canvas to the first, then it’s rather Gogonian

Date of creation: 1937 This work is a portrait of Lydia Delektorskaya, which was a muse, and later – a companion of Matisse. Lydia is depicted in an exotic Moroccan

In 1947, Matisse received an offer to assemble an album of “improvisations in color and rhythm” called “Jazz”, which would be the visual analogue of the compositions of famous jazz

When Matisse painted this picture, he was 34 years old and he was under the obvious influence of pointillism, with which Paul Signac “infected” him. The work exhibited at the

The artist’s workshop, in which the artist himself sits at the easel with his back to us and we do not see his face. And in front of him, in

Here, the artist depicted his family in a relaxed home environment – on the sofa behind his favorite needlework embroidery sitting wife Amelie. With a book in her hand, Margète’s

Here the artist deviated from his usual manner of painting and more inclined to the full-scale image. Still life is a table on which there are bottles of dark glass,