Interior at Nice by Henri Matisse Canvas Print

From the doorway, the vertical reads clean. Up close, not polite. The brushwork is loose, the floor is a scrubby wash of soft pink, and the grey curtains are barely finished that is the point. Hung on a quiet wall it does the work of a window: the room feels a little wider and a little warmer, and the eye travels out to the sea in the middle of the picture. Good above a low sofa, at the end of a hallway, or on a bedroom wall you see from the bed. Pair it with linen, cane, pale plaster and a green glazed vase. Keep bold graphic prints and heavy dark patterns well away from it they flatten the soft edges. As a canvas the loose paint reads like a painting from across the room.