Here are more images from the Matisse show in London. T.J. Clark reviews the show for London Review of Books
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I believe Matisse was right when he told his daughter that he had put into his late work ‘all the acquisitions of [his] life’, and that his skills as an artist would be sharpened by being put in the service of a new, more modest and realistic relation to the viewer. But he knew he was walking a tightrope.
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| Matisse, Mimosa, 1949 |
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| Matisse, Oceania, 1946 |
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| Matisse, The Lagoon, 1944 |
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| Matisse, The Pool |
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| Matisse, Creole Dancer, 1950 |