Henry Matisse continually strove to capture the essence of his subjects, and to this end, repeated imagery sometimes as pairs, trios, or series. While this approach is not unique, Matisse's need to work from one painting to the next is striking and reveals him to be an artist who constantly questioned himself and his methods in order to, as he put it, "push further and deeper into true painting."

Rebecca Rabinow, co-curator of the upcoming Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition Matisse: In Search of True Painting, offers a sneak preview of the show, which opens in New York in December.

Admission is $35. Click here to register.

About the Speaker
Rebecca Rabinow, a curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has helped organize 17 exhibitions and assisted with the reinstallation of the galleries for 19th and early-20th-century European paintings and sculpture. She is co-curator of the award-winning 2012 exhibition The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde.