Végétaux by Henri Matisse Size:S - 29.7 x 42cm (A3) Fancy Lady Flowers pairs botanical

Fancy Lady Flowers pairs botanical motifs with a strong female portrait to striking effect

and rhythm — letters stacked and stretched across the picture plane in a way that feels both vintage and urgently contemporary

Owen Jones's "Leaves from Nature" series

Rousseau's self-taught style gives this scene its peculiar power – every element is observed and invented simultaneously

yet the detail in each feather and the quality of light across the bird's form give it an almost monumental presence

Végétaux by Henri Matisse Size:S - 29.7 x 42cm (A3) Fancy Lady Flowers pairs botanical'Vgtaux' ('Plants') belongs to the body of large format cut outs Matisse created in the early 1950s, when physical limitation led him to work at an architectural scale with painted and cut paper. Organic leaf and frond forms, rendered in flat chromatic fields, are assembled into a composition that breathes with botanical rhythm. There is a directness in the shapes each one cut in a single confident gesture that gives the work an almost monumental