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OCR: LIFE In 1904 Matisse worked with Signac in the south of France in a Neo-Impressionist style. The following year he was the most important of the Fauve painters exhibiting at the Salon d'Automne, painting with bold brushstrokes, thick paint and strong colors. He soon abandoned conventional perspective in his continued experiments with color and expressive line, and in 1910 an exhibition of Islamic art further influenced him towards the decorative. He settled in the South of France in 1914. In the 1920s his colors became brighter, his lines more graceful: "Odalisque in Red Trousers" (1922, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris) is Matisse typical. Noted among his sculptures is "The Back I-IV" (1909 to about