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Henri Matisse was an artist of colour and sensuous line; an unerring eye until the end
I saw work by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) for the first time when I was seven.
It was a tapestry, Polynesia, newly acquired for the collection of the Art Gallery of NSW.
- Joanna Mendelssohn
- The Conversation
I wondered at the simplicity of the clean, white, marine shapes floating on blue squares…