Matisse is so thoroughly associated with color that his life as a sculptor tends to be overlooked. Yet he made over 80 sculptures, and by his own account the two practices were inseparable: he turned to clay when he had pushed a problem in paint as far as it would go. As a result, figures in the same pose appear in both media. Matisse’s Large Seated Nude, labored over across seven years (1922 to 1929), finds its echo in the odalisque paintings made alongside it. The four Back reliefs, modeled between 1909 and 1931, show the gradual abstraction of a human figure into something architectural. Acquavella—which has dealt in exceptional Matisses for over 60 years but has not mounted a show devoted to the artist since 1973—now presents 50 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper that make the connections visible. —Elena Clavarino