Paysage du Midi
1923
About this artwork
This landscape oil painting depicts a sunlit grove of trees with a figure resting in the foreground. It exemplifies the artist's focus on color and light during his Mediterranean period.
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Matisse painted this work during his time in Nice, where he frequently focused on the light and atmosphere of the French Riviera. The loose, gestural application of paint shows his evolution away from the intense, non-naturalistic color blocks of his early Fauvist period toward a more relaxed and atmospheric style.
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Paysage du Midi
Henri Matisse, 1923
