From 1946 through 1953, Henri Matisse made 28 lithographic portraits for John-Antoine Nau’s Poésies Antillaises, a book of poems inspired by the author’s time in the French Caribbean. Matisse had spent three weeks in Martinique in 1930 and the island stayed with him. His rendering of Nau’s book was published posthumously in 1972 and remains little known. The Baltimore Museum of Art is now presenting all 28 lithographs alongside works by Germaine Casse and Serge Hélénon—two artists from Martinique and Guadeloupe who moved in the same transatlantic circles. The show illuminates a chapter of Matisse’s practice that has been largely unexamined. —Elena Clavarino