Pablo Picasso Tête de femme 1931, Musée Picasso, Paris; Grand Nu au fauteuil rouge 1929, Musée Picasso, Paris; Les Femmes d'Alger 1955, Gift of Wilbur D May 1964, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; La Lecture 1932, Musée Picasso, Paris; Mandoline, compotier, bras de plâtre 1925, Bequest of Florene M Schoenborn, 1995, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; L’atelier 1955, Presented by Gustav and Elly Kahnweiler 1974, accessioned 1994, Tate; Buste de femme (Dora Maar) 1941, Private international collection; Buste d’homme (L’Athlète) 1909, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis, Chateaubriand. All © Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency. Henri Matisse Nu couché II 1927, Bequest of Florene M Schoenborn, 1995, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Odalisque assis 1926 Gift of Adele R Levy Fund Inc, 1962, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Odalisque couchée 1926, Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Le torse de plâtre, bouquet de fleurs 1919, Purchased 1958, Museu de arte de São Paulo Assis, Chateaubriand; Nature morte aux oranges 1912, Musée Picasso, Paris; Femme par une fenêtre c 1920-22, Gift of Ferdinand Howald, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus; L’Enlèvement d’Europe 1929, Purchased 1980, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Liseuse à l’ombrelle 1921, Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1938, Tate, London; Les Plumes blanche 1919, The William Hood Dunwoody Fund, Minneapolis Institute of Art; Nu assis, bras sur la tête 1904, cast c 1930, The Cone Collection, formed by Dr Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Art, Photo by Mitro Hood. All © Succession H Matisse/Copyright Agency.

Pablo Picasso
Woman in profile [Femme de profil] 1901
oil on paper board mounted on particle board
Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency

Pablo Picasso
Woman ironing [Femme repassant] 1901
oil on canvas mounted on cardboard
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency

Henri Matisse
Notre-Dame 1904
oil on canvas
Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth
© Succession H. Matisse/Copyright Agency

Pablo Picasso
The beautiful Dutch woman [La Belle hollandaise] 1905
gouache, oil and chalk on cardboard laid down on wood
Purchased 1959 with funds donated by Major Harold de Vahl Rubin, The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency

Henri Matisse
Olive trees at Collioure [Oliviers à Collioure] 1905
oil and black ink on canvas
private collection, London

Pablo Picasso
Head of a boy [Tête de jeune homme] 1906
oil on canvas
Purchased with funds provided by the Howard Heinz Endowment Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency

Pablo Picasso
Bust of a man (The athlete) [Buste d'homme (L'Athlète)] 1909
oil on canvas
Purchased 1958 Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency

Pablo Picasso
The writing desk [L’Écritoire] 1910
oil on canvas
Private international collection
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency

Henri Matisse
Olga Meerson 1911
oil on canvas
Museum purchase funded by the Agnes Cullen Arnold Endowment Fund The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
© Succession H. Matisse/Copyright Agency

Pablo Picasso
Guitar on a table [Guitare sur une table] 1912
cut-and-pasted wallpaper and charcoal on paper
Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency

Henri Matisse
Still life with oranges [Nature morte aux oranges] 1912
oil on canvas
Musée Picasso, Paris
© Succession H. Matisse/Copyright Agency

Pablo Picasso
Head of a man [Tête d’homme] 1913
oil on canvas
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency

Henri Matisse
Meditation (Portrait of Laurette) [La Méditation (Portrait de Laurette)] c. 1916
oil on canvas
Gift of Miss Ima Hogg The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
© Succession H. Matisse/Copyright Agency

Henri Matisse
Trivaux Pond [L’Étang de Trivaux] 1916-17
oil on canvas
Bequeathed by C. Frank Stoop 1933 Tate
© Succession H. Matisse/Copyright Agency

Henri Matisse
Two sisters [Les Deux soeurs] 1917
oil on canvas
Gift of Horace Havemeyer for the William D Lippitt Memorial Collection by exchange Denver Art Museum
© Succession H. Matisse/Copyright Agency

Henri Matisse
Costume for a Mandarin c.1920
silk, cotton, lamé, ink, Bakelite
Purchased 1973
National Gallery of Australia © Succession H. Matisse/Copyright Agency

Henri Matisse
Costume for a mourner c.1920
robe and headdress: cotton-wool felt, cotton-silk velvet, sized cotton, steel wire, cotton lining
Purchased 1973
National Gallery of Australia © Succession H. Matisse/Copyright Agency

Henri Matisse
White plumes [Les Plumes blanches] 1919
oil on canvas
The William Hood Dunwoody Fund Minneapolis Institute of Art
© Succession H. Matisse/Copyright Agency

Henri Matisse
Plaster figure, bouquet of flowers [Le Torse de plâtre, bouquet de fleurs] 1919
oil on canvas
Purchase, 1958 Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
© Succession H. Matisse/Copyright Agency

Pablo Picasso
No title (Guitar, glass and music score on a table) 1920
pencil, gouache
Purchased 1980
National Gallery of Australia © Pablo Picasso. Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency

Pablo Picasso
Woman by the sea [Femme assise au bord de la mer] 1922
oil on canvas
Bequest of Putnam Dana McMillan Minneapolis Institute of Art
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency

Henri Matisse
Nu au coussin bleu [Nude with blue cushion] 1924
lithograph, printed in black, from one stone.
The Poynton Bequest 2016
National Gallery of Australia © Succession H. Matisse/Copyright Agency

Pablo Picasso
Still life [Nature morte] 1924
oil on canvas
Bequest of Saidie A May Baltimore Museum of Art
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency

Henri Matisse
Seated odalisque [Odalisque assis] 1926
oil on canvas
Gift of Adele R Levy Fund Inc, 1962 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
© Succession H. Matisse/Copyright Agency

Henri Matisse
Reclining nude II [Nu couché II] 1927, cast c1930
bronze
Bequest of Florene M Schoenborn, 1995 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
© Succession H. Matisse/Copyright Agency

Henri Matisse
L'Enlèvement d'Europe [The abduction of Europa] 1929
oil on canvas
Purchased 1980
National Gallery of Australia © Succession H. Matisse/Copyright Agency

Pablo Picasso
Large nude on a red chair [Grand nu au fauteuil rouge] 1929
oil on canvas
Musée Picasso, Paris
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency

Pablo Picasso
Reading [La Lecture] 1932
oil on canvas
Musée Picasso, Paris
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency

Pablo Picasso
Sculpteur et modèle agenouillé. [Sculptor and kneeling model.] 8 April 1933
etching, printed in black ink.
Purchased 1984
National Gallery of Australia © Pablo Picasso. Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency

Pablo Picasso
Woman from Arles (Lee Miller) [L’Arlésienne (Lee Miller)] 1937
oil on canvas
Private international collection
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency

Henri Matisse
Blouse romaine [Romanian blouse] 1938
drawing, in charcoal.
Purchased 1981
National Gallery of Australia © Succession H. Matisse/Copyright Agency

Pablo Picasso
The soles [Les soles] 1940
oil on canvas
Purchased 1967 National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency

Henri Matisse
Still life with sleeping woman [Nature morte à la dormeuse] 1940
oil on canvas
Collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
© Succession H. Matisse/Copyright Agency

Pablo Picasso
Portrait of a woman (Dora Maar) [Buste de femme (Dora Maar)] 1941
oil on canvas
Private international collection
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency

Henri Matisse
Pasiphaé, Chant de Minos (Les crétois) [Pasiphaé, Song of Minos (The Cretans)]; from the additional suite of 12 linocuts [1] 1944
linocut, printed in black ink, from one block.
Purchased 1979
National Gallery of Australia © Succession H. Matisse/Copyright Agency

Henri Matisse
Poésies antillaises [Antilles poetry] additional suite of [12] lithographs on japon nacre [portrait] [1] 1945-46, published 1972
lithograph, printed in brown ink, from one stone.
Purchased 1978
National Gallery of Australia © Succession H. Matisse/Copyright Agency

Henri Matisse
Océanie, la mer [Oceania, the sea] 1946
screenprint on linen
Gift of Tim Fairfax 2012
National Gallery of Australia © Succession H. Matisse/Copyright Agency

Henri Matisse
Annelies [A13] 1946
drawing, in pencil.
Purchased 1981
National Gallery of Australia © Succession H. Matisse/Copyright Agency

Henri Matisse
Jazz. Le lanceur de couteaux [The knife thrower] 1947
pochoir, printed in colour from multiple papercut stencils.
Purchased 1979
National Gallery of Australia © Succession H. Matisse/Copyright Agency

Pablo Picasso
Femme au fauteuil n. 1 [Woman in an armchair no. 1] 1948
lithograph, printed in black ink.
Purchased 1980
National Gallery of Australia © Pablo Picasso. Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency

Pablo Picasso
The studio [L'Atelier] 1955
oil on canvas
Presented by Gustav and Elly Kahnweiler 1974, accessioned 1994 Tate
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency

Pablo Picasso
The women of Algiers (after Delacroix) [Les Femmes d'Alger (après Delacroix)] 1955
oil on canvas
Gift of the Carey Walker Foundation Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency

Pablo Picasso
Women of Algiers [Les Femmes d’Alger] 1955
oil on canvas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Gift of Wilbur D. May
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency

Left banner image: Pablo Picasso L'Arlésienne: Lee Miller 1937 Private international collection © Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency. Right banner image: Henri Matisse Plaster figure, bouquet of flowers [Le Torse de plâtre, bouquet de fleurs] 1919 Purchase, 1958 Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand © Succession H. Matisse/Copyright Agency