Odalisque with a Tambourine ☶ Matisse ☴ Canvas Add a Float Frame:Silver best known as Whistler's Mother

best known as Whistler's Mother

Whistler retreated to Venice

The closeup composition is unlike any of Van Gogh's other paintings

his left hand forming a mudra of power with two upturned fingers from which rise a cloud of smoke

possibly to portray himself as both saint and sinner

Odalisque with a Tambourine ☶ Matisse ☴ Canvas Add a Float Frame:Silver best known as Whistler's MotherOdalisque with a Tambourine (1926) by Henri Matisse depicts a nude female figure reclining in a chair in front of an open window. An odalisque is a female slave or concubine in a harem. Here she is surrounded by vibrant colors, the room has a decorative wallpaper, the chair patterned with yellow and green stripes, and a red floor. Matisse claimed that he painted odalisques as an excuse "paint the nude" having seen harems firsthand during trips to