Matisse - The Open window Boats This canvas and it's pastel

This canvas and it's pastel colours can be a nice reminder of time spent in London

Later a third and smaller version was painted as a gift to his mother and sister

Odalisque in Red Jacket was painted in 1927

blue-green background (currently in Munich) and F455 repetition of third version (currently in the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Matisse - The Open window Boats This canvas and it's pastelThe Open Window was originally painted in 1905 by Henri Matisse, and although it is a small one, it is seen as an icon of early modernism. This painting was one of the few that was exhibited at the Salon d'automne in Paris in 1905, where Fauvism was first 'labelled' as such. This painting represents the very inception of the new manner of Matisse's art. It was painted in Collioure, a small town on the Mediterranean coast of France, where the artists