As I've mentioned before, this blog is an outgrowth of my hobby of wandering around the Web looking at the collections of art museums. One of my favorite areas to visit at a museum's site is the recent acquisitions page. Tonight I discovered Henri Matisse's Les Pensées de Pascal, a recent gift to the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
I don't have too much to write about this painting other than to say I'm envious of art lovers in Minneapolis. This is not a monumental painting in Matisse's career, but I would be happy if it turned up on the walls of a museum here in the Boston area.
The painting has many familiar elements from Matisse's works of the 1920s: the vase of flowers, the curtains, the view through the window, the tropical landscape. And take a look at that diagonal, purple line. It punctuates the scene and gives the painting a sweet vitality.
The painting was donated by Ruth and Bruce Dayton.
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