Fille assise à table by Henri Matisse Exhibition off-whites

off-whites

conveying both the scale and the silence of the American Southwest

whose poise carries an understated elegance

Lake Chuzenji by Hiroaki Takahashi — known as Shōtei — presents a scene of still mountain water framed by dense forest

Fille assise à table by Henri Matisse Exhibition off-whitesFille assise table presents an intimate interior scene in Matisse's warmly observed figurative manner a seated girl at a table, surrounded by the patterned surfaces and botanical details that define his domestic interiors. Line and colour work in easy concert, the composition relaxed yet carefully considered. The botanical elements ground the figure in a domestic world rendered with gentle attentiveness and Matisse's characteristic decorative rhythm.