Woman Beside the Water ☱ Matisse ☱ Canvas flowers The date on the painting

The date on the painting

the dignified republican leaders represent the solidity of the French Republic

which used the same model

created at about the same time as Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette

Woman Beside the Water ☱ Matisse ☱ Canvas flowers The date on the paintingLa Japonaise: Woman Beside the Water (1905) by Henri Matisse was created in Collioure, a small Mediterranean fishing port near the border with Spain. Matisse began to explore what he later described as "construction by means of color" in his paintings while in Collioure. It depicts a woman in a kimono reading a book next to the water, created only with brushstrokes of color against a white canvas background and no definitive shapes or outlines. The