拍品專文
This drawing is closely related to several large oils of the late '40s. Between 1946 and 1948 Matisse concentrated on a series of large ink and brush drawings which are similar in subject to paintings of the same date. Pierre Schneider finds the brush drawings of this period interchangeable with the paintings of the same name "which only goes to prove they have the same identity. These large, dazzling, black-and-white sheets of paper are Matisse's last paintings", (v.i., pp. 653-54). Matisse himself stated that brush drawings have all the qualities of a painting or painted mural: "les dessins au pinceau et en noir contiennent en réduction les mêmes éléments qu'un tableau en couleur, d'est-ga-dire la differentation de la qualité des surfaces dans une unité de lumière" (see: Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Henri Matisse, oeuvres récentes 1947-48, 1949, p. 21).