Oranges and a lemon on a red table beside a leafy window

A red tablecloth holds scattered oranges beside a blue plate bearing more oranges, a pomegranate, and a lemon. To the left, a tall window frames a green feathery plant against a pale blue ground; beside it runs a red panel with black vertical stripes and a pink-and-black diamond frieze. A round medallion at the upper right holds a black-line profile portrait. The signature "Matisse 47" appears on the tablecloth, and Matisse's hand-lettered title, "Nice, Travail & Joie," runs in blue script beneath the scene.

Henri Matisse (1869–1954) was a French painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor, and with Picasso one of the two artists who defined modern painting in the first half of the twentieth century. He came to prominence in 1905 as the leader of the Fauves, whose canvases of that summer at Collioure used unmixed colour as the structure of the picture rather than its decoration. From 1917 he worked mainly in Nice, painting interiors, windows and models in patterned rooms with a lighter touch, and from the 1940s, confined largely to bed after surgery, he invented the papiers découpés — compositions cut from gouache-painted paper, published in the book Jazz (1947) and culminating in the Blue Nudes and the large wall-scale cut-outs of his last years. His work is held by the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Hermitage and the Barnes Foundation among many others.

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