Lloyd's Art Info

"Objects rendered by Matisse -- whether it is a tablecloth, a vase, or, in exactly the same way, a human face -- are dematerialised, transformed into coloured silhouettes, distillations of colour that spill in ornamental streaks and splashes over the canvas. Not things but the essence of things..."-- Moscow art critic Jacob Tungendhold (see my blog Painting the Essence of Things)