Henri Matisse — Leaf | Papiers Découpés in Forest Green and Gold

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Henri Matisse — Leaf | Papiers Découpés in Forest Green and GoldHenri Matisse (18691954) was the defining figure of Fauvism a movement that replaced tonal modelling with pure, expressive colour. Trained under Gustave Moreau in Paris, he spent decades transforming Western painting through portraiture, landscape, still life, and large scale mural commissions. His final decade, spent largely bedridden, produced his celebrated papiers dcoups: compositions cut entirely from painted paper, which he described as "drawing

Its illustrated manuscripts

and beyond

the botanical and the dreamlike

Kaoru Kawano (1916–1965) was a Japanese Sōsaku-hanga printmaker known for his warmly observed

his garden paintings — particularly his Andalusian patios and formal gardens — are among the most beautiful landscape works of the Symbolist era

Franz Xaver Kosler (1864–1905) was an Austrian Orientalist painter who studied in Vienna and Munich before making extended journeys to North Africa and the Middle East

A masterful draughtsman and colourist

Carl Larsson (1853–1919) was a Swedish painter whose watercolour images of his family home at Sundborn — children in sunny rooms

completely

atmospheric color

Edward Penfield (1866–1925) was the art director of Harper's Monthly and one of the founding figures of the American poster movement — an illustrator who brought the influence of the French affiche and Japanese woodblock to American graphic design with an elegance and simplicity that distinguished his work from all contemporaries

From his Fauvist canvases of St

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