“What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape: it is the human figure.”
—Henri Matisse

For the most part, those human figures belonged to women. From 1889 until his death in 1954, Matisse made thousands of drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures of women. This exhibition presents two dozen prints and drawings focused on the feminine by contemporaries of Matisse. While Matisse attempted to capture his sublimated desire for his models, his fellow artists had varying intentions, some introducing radical distortions, others seeking to reveal women’s intimate or inner world, all following a timeless tradition.