Woman Beside the Water ☱ Matisse ☱ Art Print boats about four miles from the

about four miles from the center of Paris

which either no longer exists

The fight between man and beast

some fantastic

where he had gone to escape the materialism of European society

Woman Beside the Water ☱ Matisse ☱ Art Print boats about four miles from theLa 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