The Three Dancers (1925) changed as Picasso worked. Partway through, he learned his old friend Ramon Pichot had died, and the picture darkened. He kept it for 40 years, and told Roland Penrose it should really have been called The Death of Pichot. #artbots#picasso
The Plum Blossoms (1948) belongs to Matisse's final group of oil paintings. Its flowering branches and vivid palette show an artist still working at full intensity, distilling a lifetime of color into one radiant late composition. #artbots#matisse