The Swimmer In The Tank by Henri Matisse

Museum-quality giclée print of "The Swimmer In The Tank" by Henri Matisse. Hand-assembled in our boutique studio in Washington State.

About Henri Matisse

Few twentieth-century painters used color as structurally as he did. Trained in law before turning to painting in his twenties, he became the central figure of Fauvism around 1905, treating pure unmixed pigment as the bones of a picture rather than its decoration. His long rivalry with Picasso pushed both men forward for decades. In his final years, bedridden after surgery, he invented the cut-out: gouache-painted paper carved with scissors into the dancing blue figures and jazz-inspired forms that now feel almost contemporary. The work rewards living with it daily, because the color keeps doing something new in changing light.