A year before his death, Matisse made Ivy in Flower (1953), a nine-foot maquette in cut paper for a memorial stained-glass window. Green, blue, and purple ivy on warm yellow—he called it a 'new harmony.' The window itself was never installed as planned.
![jiang cheng, after slamming the doors shut: NIE HUAISANG you lying bastard didn't you say no one would find us here--
nie huaisang: oh no... can't keep this a secret if we were seen by [blabber mouth]...... teehee](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dqcj2k4znnhrjcpxufo2v2h5/bafkreigjmnhuzb3jbcxabu5wcjrwg3dpgx52skorb7yldafnpjxvtrhav4)
