Henri Matisse Collection: Iconic Art for Your Everyday Moments

In 1941, after surgery for abdominal cancer, Henri Matisse could no longer stand at an easel for long. He picked up scissors and paper instead. What followed — Jazz, the Chapel of the Rosary, the monumental cut-outs — is widely considered his greatest work. These mugs are drawn from that final period: the most liberated, most colour-saturated painting of a career that had always been working toward exactly this.