Matisse completed The Joy of Life [Le Bonheur de Vivre] (1905-1906), a lovers’ picnic in a garden. There is a cloth, though there is neither food nor drink. Who was it that said, “Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink”? [Also see Matisse’s Calm, Luxury, and Sensual Pleasure posted elsewhere in PicnicWit]
Featured Image: Henri Matisse, Bonheur de Vivre, Joy of Life (1905/06), oil on canvas. Philadelphia: Barnes Foundation