Published on September 28, 2024 at 12:56 p.m. / Modified on September 28, 2024 at 8:38 p.m.
At the start of the Matisse (1869-1954) exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler, a poem. The invitation to travel appears in full – and in French – on the wall. “Luxury, calm and voluptuousness,” chants Baudelaire. A few steps away, a painting bears this name. A pointillist canvas, signed Matisse, where the colors of the rainbow paint freely and in small touches a snack at the water’s edge, a shore, bathers, a boat, the sea. Luxury, calm and pleasure was painted in 1904 in Paris. Paul Signac, with whom the Matisse family had spent the summer of 1904 in Saint-Tropez, acquired it the following year. He will keep it all his life.
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