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NameHenri Matisse
ProductionHenri Cartier-Bresson; photographer; 1944; France
Classificationgelatin silver prints, black-and-white prints
Materialssilver, photographic gelatin, photographic paper
DimensionsImage: 554mm (width), 374mm (height)
Registration NumberO.000534
Credit lineGift of Eastman Kodak Company, 1994
Overview
Matisse, with a white headband, glasses and a long dressing gown sits in an armchair sketching the white bird he holds in his left hand. 3 other birds sit on a birdcage on the right of the image, with more cages behind Matisse on the left.