Water moving among coloured stones

Steiniger-Bach, Tyrol River Landscape looks across a rocky stream towards trees and small distant buildings. The stones are separated into pale pink, purple and green areas, with blue-grey water between them. Their repeated irregular shapes bring the foreground close while the lighter distance opens beyond the riverbank.

Flowers against divided interior planes

Sunflower with Window places yellow flowers in a blue vessel beside a window and patterned curtain. The room is broken into pale angled surfaces, with darker geometric shapes near the bottom. The simple flower arrangement therefore becomes part of a larger relationship between colour, furnishing and the frame of the view.

A seated figure among plants and colour

Woman Reading with Red Jacket centres the sitter’s red clothing against green and blue areas, with flowers nearby. The open book creates a small angled shape within her lap. The scene connects the figure to the surrounding room through repeated colour rather than isolating her against an empty background.

Related artists and collections

Compare coloured rooms in Henri Matisse, plant forms in August Macke and lively interiors in Othon Friesz. The still life collection extends the flowers and vessels, while Fauvism prints offers further work in which strong colour shapes the experience of a recognisable place.

Read more in our Henri Matisse and his paintings.