Asia By French Artist Henri Matisse On Display In The Kimbell Art Museum In Fort Worth, Texas. Editorial Image

Pictured is a 1946 oil on canvas painting by French artist Henri Matisse titled Asia. It was painted near the end of Matisse's long career and culminates his obsession with single female figures, richly costumed, in exotic settings. Matisse was born in 1869 and died in 1954. Matisse is commonly regarded as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century.