At home with Matisse

The exhibition brings together some thirty paintings, all of them masterpieces that Matisse “relentlessly reworked”, with major figures of the 20th and 21st centuries – from Sonia Delaunay to Natalia Goncharova and Daniel Buren. It also proposes the creation of certain kinship ties – in decorative arts, as rekindled by Algerian artist Baya, or in dance, through a video by Zoulikha Bouabdellah, for example. 

The exhibition highlights Matisse in his historic dimension as much as for our present, like a perpetual fresh start for painting, this medium that he always used to call the “summit of his desire”.