Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra)
painting by Henri Matisse
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discussed in biography
- In Henri Matisse: Riviera years of Henri Matisse
…burning—happily, merely in effigy—of his Blue Nude (1907). But middle age, growing affluence, an established international reputation, the disruptions of World War I, and a distaste for public commotion gradually combined to isolate him from the centres of avant-gardism. He began to winter on the French Riviera, and by the…
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