![]() Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, bequest of Baroness Eva Gourgaud, 1965 AM 4311 P. Henri Matisse, Interior, goldfish bowl (Intérieur, bocal de poissons rouges), 1914 oil on canvas, 147 x 97 cm. If not quite an interrogation of the artist’s role, the painting seems at least a mood, or a note, from a cataclysmic atmosphere. Two goldfish swimming in a glass on a table, in front of a window. The Centre Pompidou inscribes meaning to Matisse’s goldfish through the lens of vocation: “Through the theme of the studio, Matisse interrogates the painter’s role in the world, particularly put into question by the outbreak of war.” Perhaps. What compels one to trace the contours of such imposed stillness-and what could this gesture imply? Mostly, I feel uncertain of art or writing made in this moment of extended crisis. At distance from the Great War, the writer’s perspective seems parallel to our present moment-of mediated relations, of fear and boredom crackling through screens but also of writers and artists in this country mostly insulated, or at least distanced, from the tireless work of frontline workers. I adore this cataclysm, this atmosphere, this century-old certainty: it always does. No doubt so great a cataclysm will change the atmosphere. There is no one in France who is talked about with the same earnestness, no one who arouses deep interest but him.” The writer continues: “The detractors say modern art is dead-that the great war has killed modern art. The writer, who is not afforded a byline, notes, “Matisse is the greatest name in art to-day. Over a century ago, on 24 January 1915, this painting of a goldfish bowl in a darkening studio appeared in New York newspaper The Sun under the title ‘What Is Happening In The World of Art’. If crisis permits, Henri Matisse’s Intérieur, bocal de poissons rouges, 1914, will hang in the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Photo: © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Philippe Migeat / Dist RMN-GP. © Succession H Matisse/Copyright Agency 2021. Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, purchased by the state, 1954 AM 3279 P. 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. ![]() Henri Matisse, Decorative figure on an ornamental background (Figure décorative sur fond ornamental), 1925–26, oil on canvas, 130 x 98 cm Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, purchased by the state, 1938 AM 2149 P. Henri Matisse, Still life with magnolia (Nature morte au magnolia), 1941, oil on canvas, 74 x 101 cm Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, purchased 1945 AM 2588 P. Henri Matisse, Le luxe I, 1907, oil on canvas, 210 x 138 cm, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, purchased 1945 AM 2586 P. Photo: © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Service de la documentation photographique du MNAM / Dist RMN-GP. Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, purchased 1984 AM 1984-276. 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. Photo: © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Bertrand Prévost / Dist RMN-GP. Henri Matisse, Polynesia, the sky (Polynésie, le ciel), 1946, gouache on paper, cut and pasted, mounted on canvas, 200 x 314 cm Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, from Mobilier national et Manufactures des Gobelins, de Beauvais et de la Savonnerie since 1975 AM 1975-DEP 13.
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