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Installation view of ‘Matisse: Life & Spirit Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou, Paris’ exhibition, on display at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 20 November 2021 – 13 March 2022. Photo © AGNSW, Mim Stirling.

Henri Matisse. Still life with green marble table (Nature morte à la table de marbre vert) 1941, oil on canvas, 46 x 38.5 cm. Centre Pompidou, Paris, MNAM-CCI, purchased 1945 AM 2591 P. © Succession H Matisse/Copyright Agency 2021. Photo: © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Philippe Migeat / Dist RMN-GP.

Henri Matisse. Le luxe I 1907, oil on canvas, 210 x 138 cm. Centre Pompidou, Paris, MNAM-CCI, purchased 1945 AM 2586 P. © Succession H Matisse/Copyright Agency 2021. Photo: © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Philippe Migeat / Dist RMN-GP.

Henri Matisse. Interior, goldfish bowl (Intérieur, bocal de poissons rouges) 1914 oil on canvas, 147 x 97 cm. Centre Pompidou, Paris, MNAM-CCI, bequest of Baroness Eva Gourgaud, 1965 AM 4311 P. © Succession H Matisse/Copyright Agency 2021. Photo: © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Philippe Migeat / Dist RMN-GP.

Henri Matisse. Still life with magnolia (Nature morte au magnolia) 1941, oil on canvas, 74 x 101 cm. Centre Pompidou, Paris, MNAM-CCI, purchased 1945 AM 2588 P. © Succession H Matisse/Copyright Agency 2021. Photo: © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Philippe Migeat / Dist RMN-GP.

Henri Matisse. Blue nude II (Nu bleu II) 1952, gouache on paper, cut and pasted on paper, mounted on canvas, 103.8 x 86 cm. Centre Pompidou, Paris, MNAM-CCI, purchased 1984 AM 1984- 276. © Succession H Matisse/Copyright Agency 2021. Photo: © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Service de la documentation photographique du MNAM / Dist RMN-GP.

Henri Matisse in his studio cutting coloured gouaches, Nice, 1953 Bibliothèque Kandinsky, MNAM-CCI, Centre Pompidou, Hélène Adant Collection.

Matisse in the garden of Jazz publisher Tériade, St-Jean-Cap- Ferrat, 1951–52 Bibliothèque Kandinsky, MNAM-CCI, Centre Pompidou, Hélène Adant Collection.

Henri Matisse. The painter in his studio (Le peintre dans son atelier) 1916–17, oil on canvas, 146.5 x 97 cm. Centre Pompidou, Paris, MNAM-CCI, purchased 1945 AM 2585 P. © Succession H Matisse/Copyright Agency 2021. Photo: © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Philippe Migeat / Dist RMN-GP.

Henri Matisse. Odalisque with red culottes (Odalisque à la culotte rouge) 1921 oil on canvas, 65.3 x 92.3 x 2.5 cm. Centre Pompidou, Paris, MNAM-CCI, purchased by the state, 1922 LUX.0.85 P. © Succession H Matisse/Copyright Agency 2021. Photo: © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Philippe Migeat / Dist RMN-GP.

Henri Matisse. The sorrow of the king (La tristesse du roi) 1952, gouache on paper, cut and pasted, mounted on canvas, 292 x 386 cm. Centre Pompidou, Paris, MNAM-CCI, purchased by the state, 1954 AM 3279 P. © Succession H Matisse/Copyright Agency 2021. Photo: © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Philippe Migeat / Dist RMN-GP.