The Piano Lesson, 1916© 2010 Succession H. Matisse/Artists Rights Society, New York
Henri Matisse had an extraordinary view of the world—bold, geometric, abstract and undeniably beautiful. The Museum of Modern Art’s current Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 exhibit explores one of the artist’s most experimental periods.
Bathers by a River, 1909–10; 1913; 1916–17© 2010 Succession H. Matisse/Artists Rights Society, New York