Woman Beside the Water ☱ Matisse ☱ Canvas flowers The night sky may have

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

The date on the painting

transforming the marshy ground behind his home into a pond

which used the same model

This painting represents the parade

Woman Beside the Water ☱ Matisse ☱ Canvas flowers The night sky may haveLa 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