马蒂斯作品《莎拉·斯坦》

Matisse biographer Hilary Spurling describes this portrait of Sarah Stein, painted in 1916.

It’s an ethereal painting he paints really that spirit that he said he saw looking out of her eyes. The spirit that had instantly recognized his spirit– she recognized it from his paintings, and she said that what always moved her most about those paintings was their purity, their nobility, their serenity– and that is the mode in which he painted Sarah, to the outside, the naked eye, she wasn’t chic, she dressed strangely in oriental draperies, and weird colors– nothing like what the smart young lady was wearing in Paris in those days.

马蒂斯传记作家希拉里·斯珀林描述了这幅1916年绘制的莎拉·斯坦因的肖像。

这是一幅空灵的画，他画的正是他说从她眼中看到的那种精神。立即认出他的精神的精神——她从他的画作中认出了这一点，她说，这些画作最让她感动的是它们的纯洁、高贵、宁静——这就是他画莎拉的方式，从外面看，肉眼，她不时髦，她穿着奇怪的东方布料和奇怪的颜色——一点也不像那个聪明的年轻女士当时在巴黎穿的衣服。