Matisse’s 1915 homage to Jan Davidsz. de Heem transforms a Baroque banquet into a modern design of bold planes, black contours, and tuned color. Explore how lemons, lute, goblet, and overflowing fruit basket become an exacting architecture of rhythm and light.
Matisse’s 1915 “Nude Woman” transforms a reclining figure into a modern harmony of planes, contours, and light. Explore how restrained color, sculptural drawing, and luminous whites create intimacy and structural clarity.
In 1914 Matisse fused a bowl of red fish, a Paris balcony, and a painter’s palette into a bold grid of blacks, whites, and cool blues. Discover how structure, color, and self-reference turn “Goldfish and Palette” into a defining modern interior.
Matisse’s 1914 still life turns a glass coupe, lemons, a red tabletop, a green wall, and a framed silhouette into a modern design of bold planes and clear contours. Explore how color, texture, and balance create a luminous studio scene.
Matisse’s 1914 “View of Notre Dame” reduces a Paris vista to cool blue planes, bold window bars, and a single green accent—turning the familiar motif of the studio window into a modern meditation on space, light, and the picture plane.
Painted in 1914, Matisse’s “Notre Dame” captures Paris with swift lines, a restrained palette, and a dynamic diagonal of the Seine. Explore how color, contour, and composition turn the cathedral and river into a modern, living field.
Matisse’s 1914 portrait swaps lush color for sweeping arcs, bold verticals, and a cool grisaille palette. Discover how line, value, and shallow space create a masklike yet vivid presence in “Madame Yvonne Landsberg.”
Matisse’s 1914 interior places a cylindrical aquarium of orange fish before an open window, balancing cool blues and firm contours with warm accents. Explore how geometry, color, and transparency turn a simple room into a modern meditation on looking.
Matisse’s 1914 “French Window at Collioure” reduces a Mediterranean window to three vertical color planes and a single diagonal, turning a view into a modern meditation on edge, light, and the picture plane.
Painted in 1914, Matisse’s “Branch of Lillacs” turns a glass jar of blossoms into a modern design of grisaille tones, crisp silhouettes, and delicate color accents—uniting negative space, calligraphic line, and studio objects into a poised, luminous still life.
Painted in 1914, Matisse’s “Marguerite with Hat” distills a modern portrait into sea-green atmosphere, rose-coral garment, and crisp black accents, using reserve, rhythm, and bold contour to achieve intimate poise and poster-like clarity.
Matisse’s 1914 “Gray Nude with Bracelet” uses a restrained grayscale, bold contour, and a single warm accent to turn a studio pose into a powerful architecture of mass, light, and poise.
Matisse’s 1914 portrait of his daughter reduces the figure to luminous fields of color, bold contour, and purposeful reserves, balancing cool blues and violets with a single hot orange plane to achieve modern clarity and intimate poise.
Matisse’s austere 1914 portrait places a woman on a tall stool within a gray studio, balancing blue-green and rust tones with strong black contours to fuse structure, mood, and modern poise.
Painted in 1914, Matisse’s “Striped Jacket” captures modern poise with bold contour, airy color fields, and a cascade of blue stripes. Explore how reserve, rhythm, and design turn a simple portrait into a lasting statement of clarity and charm.
Painted in 1914, Matisse’s “Me, Myself & Stendhal Vase of Tulips” transforms a simple bouquet into a vivid architecture of color and contour. Explore how a ribbed vase, turquoise field, and red-yellow-white tulips create balance, rhythm, and modern poise.
Matisse’s 1914 “Seated Nude with Violet Stockings” turns a studio pose into a bold architecture of contour and color. Discover how black line, a lean palette, and a green wicker chair create a modern, disciplined sensuality.
“Moroccan Café” (1913) distills a Tangier café into airy planes of blue, sandy borders, and simplified figures. Discover how Matisse uses color, ornament, and shallow space to turn sociability into a serene, decorative world.