New York’s MoMA exhibits Matisse’s paintings within a painting

New York (AFP) – When Henri Matisse painted “The Red Studio” in 1911 he portrayed 11 of his artworks on a single canvas. An exhibition in New York is about to display all the surviving works together for the first time. In “The Red Studio,” the French artist reproduced almost a dozen miniature versions of his paintings and sculptures as a way to depict his workshop in the Paris suburbs — not to mention play with perspective, color, time and space. All the pieces seen in the painting have survived apart from one that Matisse, considered among the greatest artists of the 20th century, had asked…

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