Landscape 1898 — Fine Art

Landscape 1898 shows a rural scene painted in broad areas of colour. Trees, fields and a sky sit across the picture with simple outlines. Henri Matisse worked in this period with flat colour and clear shapes. The marks stay loose and the ground stays plain.

You get the fine art print with a hanger already on the back. A white frame gives the picture a clear edge on the wall. The frame edge sits close to the colour areas, so the image reads as one plane. You see the paint marks without a glossy surface between you and the sheet.

It fits above a sideboard in a study. Morning light from a window falls across the centre, and from the doorway you read the fields and sky first, then the brush marks near the trees.