Odalisque with a Tambourine ☶ Matisse ☴ Canvas Add a Float Frame:Silver possibly to portray himself as

possibly to portray himself as both saint and sinner

and as it lacks a vanishing point

The closeup composition is unlike any of Van Gogh's other paintings

looking back down the mountain trail he is traveling

Odalisque with a Tambourine ☶ Matisse ☴ Canvas Add a Float Frame:Silver possibly to portray himself asOdalisque with a Tambourine (1926) by Henri Matisse depicts a nude female figure reclining in a chair in front of an open window. An odalisque is a female slave or concubine in a harem. Here she is surrounded by vibrant colors, the room has a decorative wallpaper, the chair patterned with yellow and green stripes, and a red floor. Matisse claimed that he painted odalisques as an excuse "paint the nude" having seen harems firsthand during trips to