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The Piano Lesson depicts the living room of Henri Matisse’s home in Issy-les-Moulineaux with his elder son Pierre at the piano the artist’s sculpture Decorative Figure (1908) at bottom left and at upper right his painting Woman on a High Stool. Matisse began with a naturalistic drawing but he eliminated detail as he worked scraping down areas and rebuilding them in broad fields of color.