John Elderfield

Henri Matisse, "Plum Blossoms, Ochre Background" (1948)

"It’s amazing to think that in the '80s even very sophisticated people were still putting [Matisse] down as some sort of bourgeois decorator, in a way which seems preposterous now," says Elderfield.

© 2008 Succession H. Matisse, Paris/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York