Woman Beside the Water ☱ Matisse ☱ Canvas flowers I myself find that funny

I myself find that funny

it was included in his first and only art show at the Galerie Berthe Weill

transforming the marshy ground behind his home into a pond

The date on the painting

the reflection and size indicate the earring may actually be polished tin

Woman Beside the Water ☱ Matisse ☱ Canvas flowers I myself find that funnyLa Japonaise: Woman Beside the Water (1905) by Henri Matisse was created in Collioure, a small Mediterranean fishing port near the border with Spain. Matisse began to explore what he later described as "construction by means of color" in his paintings while in Collioure. It depicts a woman in a kimono reading a book next to the water, created only with brushstrokes of color against a white canvas background and no definitive shapes or outlines. The