After the success of their Munch exhibition, the Pompidou Centre brings together sixty-odd works to show how Henri Matisse would work on the same motif or subject in a multitude of different ways.During his/her life, the style of an artist can obviously change, slowly or radically or both, whilst still using the same subject as source. Matisse was especially fond of revisiting his own work from a different direction, and this exhibition displays pairs of paintings or series (hence the the title) for us to better compare what has changed and how that affects our appreciation of the piece in question.A catalogue (40€, 288 pages) and a mini-catalogue (8.45€ 59 pages) are being published to coincide with the exhibition.

The Matisse, Pairs and series exhibition is at the Pompidou Centre (here) from 7th March – 18th June 2012

Open every day except Tuesdays and 1st May from 11am – 8pm (11pm Thursdays). Last ticket one hour before closing

Admission: 13€ / 10€

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Images – Henri Matisse: Le Rêve, Hôtel Régina, 1940, “La Dormeuse” Collection particulière / Henri Matisse: Blouse roumaine, 1940. Don de l’artiste en 1953, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou © Succession Henri Matisse, 2011