青山義雄　AOYAMA Yoshio

Nice is the place where Henri Matisse spent his later years. Yoshio Aoyama met Matisse in 1926, and from then until Matisse's death in 1954, they maintained a teacher-student relationship. It is certain that this work was created after Matisse's death, but the sense of color, such as increasing the saturation of the roof tiles and transforming the sky into purple or green, seems as if Aoyama was constantly conscious of Matisse's teachings. On the other hand, not only does he use white paint for the white areas, but he also makes efforts so that the canvas's underpainting is visible in places, and he adds a muddied feeling through unique color mixing, showing that this is not a complete imitation of Matisse.