Henri Matisse: A Retrospective

The most comprehensive exhibition ever held of the work of the French master Henri Matisse (1869–1954), Henri Matisse: A Retrospective comprises more than 400 works which together reveal the exceptional range and depth of the artist’s work. The exhibition offers the opportunity for a reassessment of both Matisse’s career and the critical role his work plays in the history of twentieth-century art. Matisse is fully revealed not only as a painter of scenes of primal beauty, but as one whose art rests on a foundation of extraordinary visual intelligence and rigorous discipline.