Henri Matisse exhibits four paintings at the …
Years: 1896 - 1896
Henri Matisse exhibits four paintings at the backward-looking Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1896 and scores a triumph; he is elected an associate member of the Salon society, and the government purchases his Woman Reading (1894; Musée National d'Arte Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris)
