The Blue Window by Henri Matisse Canvas Print

On a north-facing afternoon, the soft blue looks almost illegally fresh. That is what this piece does to a quiet room: it holds one colour steady across the whole wall, so a grey-blue sofa or a painted door suddenly looks deliberate rather than accidental. The upright shape suits a narrow stretch of wall between two windows, above a bedside table, or on the wall behind a writing desk. Keep the room around it simple: pale linen, mid-century teak, a green glazed vase, one mustard cushion picking up the yellow. Skip busy patterned wallpaper and avoid crowding it with other colourful pictures; the blue needs room to breathe. As a canvas, it is stretched over a wooden frame and ready to hang.