And Picasso’s painting held a joke for Matisse as well. A short time before the exchange, Baldassari explains, Matisse had been attacked in the press for a still life of his own. “Lemons are ...

He was greatly influenced by Jean-Simeon Chardin, an expert on still life painting, and Nicolas Poussin, who was known for ...

Barnes (1872-1951) assembled a collection of about 900 paintings ... Matisse began to winter in Nice, near Renoir’s home in Cagnes-sur-Mer, and were friends for the last two years of Renoir’s ...