What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape but the human figure. It is through it that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have toward life.
Henri Matisse, 1908
HENRI MATISSE may be the best proof since Shakespeare of the irrelevance of the facts of a great artist's life to the genius of his work. Not that the facts are unknown. They are copious. Henri Matisse was born 100 years ago into the family of a grain merchant. He took up the study of law and turned seriously...
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