Matisse [antikvár]

-SSi: Still Life with Books and Candle, 1890 Oil 8V2" X IOV2" Musée Matisse, Nice A RESOLVE TO PAINT I have arranged on my table some thirty pictures of Matisse. Some are old photographs and others were taken during the last few years of his life and show him sitting beside his dog or in his studio, working on a portrait of a model. There are also some reproductions of self-portraits in pencil, charcoal, or in Indian ink. There is a photo of him taken in about 1900. He has an impressive light-coloured beard, wears pince-nez glasses and there is a thoughtful, inquiring look in his expression, so characteristic of him later on when old age brought greater depth and serenity to an already grave face. Some self-portrait line-drawings combine precision and humour and leave behind a glimpse of delicacy in