at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

I went to this breathtaking exhibit today and was mesmerized by the depth and scope of the presentation. I learned a great deal, and the interesting subject matter shall remain inside me forever.

Matisse: In Search of True Painting

Matisse: In Search of True Painting, Press

"(Matisse) attempted to capture the essence of a light-filled room in a series of canvases painted in Nice in the winter and spring of 1917–1918:
Interior at Nice (Room at the Hôtel Beau-Rivage), The Open Window (Room at the Hôtel Beau-Rivage), and Interior with a Violin (Room at the Hôtel Beau-Rivage)

The Hotel Beau-Rivage is on the right:

"The Matisse Exhibition at the Galerie Maeght, Paris, December 1945 "The fall and early winter of 1945 were dubbed "the season of Matisse." In October he was honored with a thirty-seven-picture retrospective at the Paris Salon d'Automne. In December six of the paintings reappeared about a mile away at the inaugural exhibition of the Galerie Maeght. Each painting was juxtaposed with large framed photographs documenting its evolution."

 Galerie Maeght is on the right:

The Galleries

THE DREAM

THE LARGE BLUE DRESS

INTERIOR AT NICE

NASTURTIUMS WITH THE PAINTING "DANCE"

INTERIOR WITH AN EGYPTIAN CURTAIN

INTERIOR WITH GOLDFISH

LARGE RED INTERIOR

YOUNG SAILOR II

Collioure 

(where YOUNG SAILOR  was painted)