Matisse's "Violinist at the Window"

When i told a friend of my upcoming lecture on this painting (at the Newart Center, in Newton MA on Wednesday Feb. 3 at 7 pm), he remarked that the painting is like "a chicken bone stuck in your throat".

What a great description of such a raw image. When painted (1918) it must have been far beyond the pale of art world gestalt.

How does that fit with what Samuel Beckett said, in an interview with the art critic, George Duthuit, of Matisse, "...The only thing disturbed by the revolutionary...Matisse is a certain order on the plane of the feasible".