Woman Reading

Woman Reading (La Liseuse), 1895, oil on board, 61.5 x 48 cm, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Musée Matisse

Woman Reading (La Liseuse) is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1896. It is displayed at Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Musée Matisse, deposited by the Centre Pompidou in 2002. It shows the calmness of a reading woman. The painting evokes a calm, relaxing atmosphere.^{[original research?]}

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Works	Woman Reading (1894) Landscape, the Pink Wall (1898) A Glimpse of Notre-Dame in the Late Afternoon (1902) Luxury, Calm and Pleasure (1904) The Green Line (1905) The Open Window (1905) Woman with a Hat (1905) Les toits de Collioure (1905) Landscape at Collioure (1905) Le bonheur de vivre (1906) The Young Sailor II (1906) Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt (1906) Madras Rouge (1907) Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra) (1907) The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room) (1908) Game of Bowls (1908) Bathers with a Turtle (1908) Portrait of Greta Moll (1908) Dance (1910) Music (1910) Still Life with Geraniums (1910) L'Atelier Rouge (1911) The Conversation (1908–1912) Zorah on the Terrace (1912) Window at Tangier (1912) Le Rifain assis (1912) View of Notre-Dame (1914) Woman on a High Stool (1914) The Yellow Curtain (1915) The Window (1916) Bathers by a River (1917) The Painter and His Model (1917) The Music Lesson (1917) Piano Lesson (1918) Interior A Nice (1920) Odalisque with Raised Arms (1923) Yellow Odalisque (1926) The Back Series (1909–1930) The Dance II (1932) Robe violette et Anémones (1937) Woman in a Purple Coat (1937) La Blouse Roumaine (1940) Annelies, White Tulips and Anemones (1944) L'Asie (1946) Young Woman in White on a Red Background (1946) Le Lanceur De Couteaux (1947) Deux fillettes, fond jaune et rouge (1947) The Plum Blossoms (1948) Beasts of the Sea (1950) Facial-maschera (red) (1951) The Sorrows of the King (1952) Black Leaf on Green Background (1952) La Négresse (1952) Blue Nudes (1952) The Snail (1953) Le Bateau (1953)
Chapels	Chapel of the Rosary
Art books	Jazz (1947 book)
People	Pierre Matisse (son) Paul Matisse (grandson) Sophie Matisse (great-granddaughter) Lydia Delectorskaya Gustave Moreau (teacher)
Museums	Matisse Museum (Le Cateau) Musée Matisse (Nice)
Related	Fauvism An Essay on Matisse (1996 documentary)

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