But not until the recent opening of “Van Gogh, Manet and Matisse: The Art of the Flower” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has any major American exhibit examined just how dramatically this ...

their simple floral motifs an apparent nod to Henri Matisse, who, in his 1947 book, “Jazz,” writes, “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” “If I’m painting flowers ...

and “The Blue Nude,” now in the Baltimore Museum of Art. The Steins also had some of his gigantic still-lifes of fruits and flowers. These were canvases of such huge size that Matisse painted ...

Matisse’s daughter Marguerite (French for “daisy”) wears a dress covered in the same flowers that reappear on paintings and drawings her father made of her in the nude.Credit...Succession H.

The subject itself could be fruit, flowers or a fabric screen ... Over the next eight years Matisse gradually abandoned easel painting, experimenting with prints, inventing cut-paper techniques ...

Near the end of his life, Matisse returned to his old preoccupations. In his last completed oil, “Large Red Interior” (1948), paintings, flowers, furniture, and pets are all pressed against ...