Fenêtre ouverte, 1971

The photographic canvas reproduces a view, through an open window, of Henri Matisse's private garden in Cimiez. The title is the same as that of a series of paintings by Matisse himself, Fenêtre ouverte, which portray a view of the landscape through the frame of a window.
In the artist's own words: “The view which is intimately familiar to Matisse is his own; hence, all I could do was sign it with the title of his own work”.1

1 G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2001), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 207 p. 218.