Reclining Figure in a Landscape

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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

Matisse often used members of his family as models for his paintings. Here he depicts his daughter, Marguerite, resting on a haystack; she is recognizable by the black ribbon around her neck, which she wore to hide scars from a surgery. Matisse painted this while he was living in Nice in the South of France. As in many of his canvases from the Nice period, this one seems to straddle the portrait and landscape genres.

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