Henri Matisse — The Green Stripe (Madame Matisse) | Fauvism

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Henri Matisse — The Green Stripe (Madame Matisse) | FauvismHenri Matisse (18691954) was the defining figure of Fauvism a movement that replaced tonal modelling with pure, expressive colour. Trained under Gustave Moreau in Paris, he spent decades transforming Western painting through portraiture, landscape, still life, and large scale mural commissions. His final decade, spent largely bedridden, produced his celebrated papiers dcoups: compositions cut entirely from painted paper, which he described as "drawing

Kanae Yamamoto (1882–1946) was the founding figure of the Sōsaku-hanga (creative print) movement in Japan — the artist who

he produced studies of tigers — alone

Chinese floral

the revolutionary "new woodblock" movement that transformed Japanese printmaking in the 20th century

and quiet light

and the certainty that art could change how people live

creating paintings in which pattern

immediately legible style built on a single vivid image against a dark background

and every major collection worldwide

chose to live among the people he painted — settling permanently in the Algerian oasis town of Bou Saâda

fortifications

Frames are solid ash and oak