The Painter's Family, 1911 By Henri Matisse Editorial Photo

The Painter's Family is another of the four great "Symphonic Interiors" (to borrow Alfred Barr's apt phrase), perhaps the third of the series to be completed. It was painted in the artist's villa at Issy-les-Moulineaux, whereas L'Atelier Rouge and The Pink Studio were painted in his workrooms constructed in the garden and Still Life with Aubergines shows us the interior of his villa at Collioure. Hence, these four pictures sum up the artist's life and surroundings of that year, before he temporarily extended his working environment to North Africa.