Still Life with Fruit and Bottles 1896 — Fine Art

Still Life with Fruit and Bottles 1896 by Henri Matisse sets fruit and bottles against a broad ground. The colours sit close together, with warm tones near cool ones, so the surface reads as a single plane. The composition rests on simple shapes rather than detail.

This fine art print sits inside a frame with a back panel. The flat surface keeps the painted areas even, so the fruit and bottles hold their shapes without glare. You see the whole arrangement at once.

It fits above a sideboard in a dining room. The bottles line up near the top edge, and the fruit sits lower, so the eye moves across the shelf from left to right.