Matisse painted 'Pansies' (1903) during his ‘dark period,' as he went through near financial ruin and family scandal. He wrote of being moved by the pansy's melancholic grace, like Dutch flower painters of the 17thC, he saw the cut flower as a symbol of the vanity of human life.

Matisse painted 'Pansies' (1903) during his ‘dark period,' as he went through near financial ruin and family scandal. He wrote of being moved by the pansy's melancholic grace, like Dutch flower painters of the 17thC, he saw the cut flower as a symbol of the vanity of human life.

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