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This description of Henri Matisse’s luxurious 1937 “Yellow Odalisque” also fits Thomas’ splendid self-portrait.

The Wooster Group collaborated with Foreman on the original production of “Symphony of Rats,” an occasion in which the Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse of New York’s downtown avant-garde performance scene teamed up.

That’s why it’s always been a particular favorite in art, from the walls of Pompeii to the works of Henri Matisse.

It can strike you as quintessentially French, perhaps because it shares chromatic DNA with Matisse’s “Blue Nude” series of cutouts.

Likewise, some of the sunny yellow that Henri Matisse brushed between the reclining nudes in his painting "The Joy of Life" is now more of a drab beige.