Visage de femme by Henri Matisse Size:L - 70 x 100.0cm and warm undertones — evokes

and warm undertones — evokes the quiet authority of nineteenth-century botanical studies

Hasui's controlled gradation of tone across sky and river surface is at its most precise here

grid-based composition requires

Bodart layers organic forms against geometric backdrops with a confident sense of colour

Visage de femme by Henri Matisse Size:L - 70 x 100.0cm and warm undertones — evokes'Visage de femme' ('Face of a Woman') exemplifies the distillation of portraiture that Matisse pursued throughout his later graphic work. With a minimum of line, the face is described rather than depicted eyes, nose, and lips reduced to a handful of marks that nonetheless convey a complete and recognisable presence. The approach owes something to classical drawing and something to the sign like economy of non Western traditions, resulting in a work