About 140 works by Henri Matisse from the collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art are on show at the High Museum of Art through Jan. 19.
The Atlanta museum says this is the largest loan the New York institution has ever made to another museum. It samples the whole range of Matisse's creative output - paintings, drawings, sculpture, cutouts, prints, illustrated books, a stained-glass window and sets of liturgical vestments.Among major works Atlanta visitors can see are the paintings "The Red Studio" and "The Piano Lesson"; the four monumental "Back" sculptures, and the joyful "Swimming Pool," a fragile mural cutout almost 54 feet long that has not been out on show since 1992.
A seasonal piece is the nearly 11-foot-high "Nuit de Noel" stained-glass window commissioned by Life magazine in 1952.