Woman Beside the Water ☱ Matisse ☱ Canvas flowers created at about the same

created at about the same time as Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette

The night sky may have been influenced by a celestial event on 20 April 1890

This painting represents the parade

it was included in his first and only art show at the Galerie Berthe Weill

The date on the painting

Woman Beside the Water ☱ Matisse ☱ Canvas flowers created at about the sameLa 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