Mattisse did a still life in which flowers from the decoration ON a
vase fall off and become real flowers (within the still life).  What
is the name of the painting and where is it?  I think it's in either
the MOMA or the MMA.

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Clarification of Question by alapidus-ga on 05 Jul 2004 08:06 PDT

art

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Request for Question Clarification by andrewxmp-ga on 05 Jul 2004 08:25 PDT

Hi,

I looked through what seems to be a very complete gallery of Matisse's
works (158 paintings) at
[ http://www.abcgallery.com/M/matisse/matisse.html ] 
yet did not find anything resembling your description.  He did paint a
number of flowers/vases, however....are you sure of your description?

-Andrewxmp

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Clarification of Question by alapidus-ga on 05 Jul 2004 09:09 PDT

I'm pretty sure that all that I said is correct.  The site you
referred to is a poster site so I'm skeptical about it's completeness.
 If you know of any other major painter's work which also has the same
idea of the pottery decoration also being portrayed as real, I would
likely consider it to be an answer.  I do appreciate the work you've
done so far.

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Clarification of Question by alapidus-ga on 06 Jul 2004 04:59 PDT

Pinkfreud:  Do you have an email address at which we can discuss further?

I wonder whether this painting might be by Magritte rather than
Matisse. Magritte often played with perceptions of images and reality.

Here's a typical Magritte "trompe l'oeil" painting :

http://web.genie.it/utenti/f/frankmas/magritte/immagini/72cascade.jpg

Does this look like the general style of the painting you're looking for?