Picasso picked a portrait of Matisse’s daughter Marguerite, and Matisse chose a still life, Pitcher, Bowl and Lemon. It was said that Picasso hung the Matisse in a room where his friends threw ...

Matisse greatly admired Renoir ... And it was good to remember that “Dishes and Melon” (1906-07), a vigorous still life playing the rounded forms of crockery and fruit against a small ...