Matisse. A sort of paradise - ACE019.3

"It is contemplative action – or active contemplation." Paintings including The Moroccan in Green / El Rifeno de pie (1912-1913) and Yellow Curtain. The Moroccans (1916). A Vase with Oranges (1916). The Moroccans. Portrait of Mlle Yvonne Landsberg (1914). The Window (1916). Studio, Quay of Saint-Michel (1916). The Window (Interior with Forget-Me-Nots) (1916), and others including Tea in the Garden (1919). The Dance II. "I had conceived The Dance long before, and put it into picture after picture…" Large Reclining Nude (aka The Pink Nude) (1935).