Matisse, then a 29-year-old struggling artist, discovered Van Gogh’s work at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in Paris. He fell in ...

In the late 1940s, an infirm and increasingly despondent Henri ... paintings. Picasso chose a portrait of Matisse’s daughter and Matisse took Pitcher, Bowl and Lemon (1907), a still life.

Henri Matisse once wrote ... He was greatly influenced by Jean-Simeon Chardin, an expert on still life painting, and Nicolas ...