Get Ready for Henri

We're anxiously awaiting the MoMA's Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 exhibit, and here's why we think you should be as well: The exhibit, opening on July 18 after a showing at the Art Institute of Chicago, will include some of Matisse's most avant-garde work. Further, Chicago Tribune staff reporter Lauren Viera writes, 

"What's most successful about 'Radical Invention' is the buildup: We aren't privy to the piece that started it all, 'Bathers by a River,' until we're nearly through. But all of a sudden, there it is, and it means so much more."

 Read more here, and hear John Elderfield's description of masterpiece "The Moroccans" (1915), which is featured in the exhibit, along with "Bathers by a River" (completed 1917), below.

courtesy of moma.org

courtesy of moma.org