“Gray Nude with Bracelet” by Henri Matisse (1913)

Matisse

“Portrait of Mme. Matisse” by Henri Matisse (1913)

Blue Nude.

The Happy Place in New York is the Matisse Cutouts Show at the Modern, running through February.

I left happier than I was when I walked in.

Also: that man could draw his ass off.

[Photo Credit: Waldemar Januszczak]

“Interior with Violin” By Henri Matisse (1918)

“The Window” by Henri Matisse (1916)

“Landscape Viewed from a Window” By Henri Matisse (1912)

“The Piano Lesson” by Henri Matisse (1916)

“Conversation” by Henri Matisse (1909)

“Seated Pink Nude” By Henri Matisse (1935-36)

“Flowers and Ceramic Plate” by Henri Matisse.

“Anemones with a Black Mirror” by Henri Matisse (1918-19)

“Sketch for Ulysses” by Henri Matisse.

Matisse at age 83, 1953.

[Photograph by: Hélène Adant/Rapho]

Matisse.

“Studio Interior, Detail,” by Henri Matisse (1903-04)

Since we’re talking literature, check out this recent piece on James Joyce by Louis Menand in the New Yorker.

Even better, dig these rare illustrations Henri Matisse did for a 1935 edition of “Ulysses.”

“Still Life with Black Knife,” By Henri Matisse (1896)

Matisse at work.