Seascape 1905 — Fine Art

Blue water runs into a pale sky in Seascape 1905, a seascape painting by Henri Matisse. Broad colour areas sit on a light ground and the edges stay open.

The work belongs to the fauvist colour practice in the artist wider output. A fine art print set in a frame with a back panel reproduces the painted surface on paper.

The matte paper keeps the pale blues and the soft lines from going sharp under a lamp. You see the broad water shapes first, then the small brush passes up close. It fits a plain bedroom wall above a low bed, with daylight from the side and the bed about eye level from across the room.