| FAUVISTS | Group of mostly French painters led by Henri Matisse who used pure, brilliant colour (8) |
| DERAIN | Andre -; founding member of Fauvism with Henri Matisse who painted a series of landscapes viewed from the Thames (6) |
| ATTAR | An essential oil from flowers, especially the damask rose, used pure or as a base for perfume (5) |
| WRITEUP | Used pure wit to put on record (5-2) |
| VENETIAN | - red; ferric oxide (jeweller's rouge) as a pigment; a colour used by Henri Matisse in some of his paintings (8) |
| GOLDFISH | Species of carp depicted in paintings by Henri Matisse (8) |
| BLUENUDE | 1907 oil painting on canvas by Henri Matisse subtitled Souvenir of Biskra |
| THEDANCE | Painting of 1910 by Henri Matisse featuring five figures (3,5) |
| ANEMONES | "Annelies, White Tulips, and ___": 1944 oil painting by Henri Matisse |
| BARBIZON | -- School, mid-19th-century group of French painters (8) |
| PAPILLON | Novel by Henri Charriere about his imprisonment in a French penal colony (8) |
| ELECTRIC | ___ blue, brilliant colour (8) |
| LABOHEME | Title shared by two operas based on a work by Henri Murger |
| SNIFFLES | I got for nothing small tin of mostly meat ___ cold, perhaps? (8) |
| QUIXOTRY | Doubt, at heart replaced by rise of mostly harmful, foolish idealism |
| POLITICS | Career of mostly courteous Independent and Conservative ministers at the end (8) |
| PLEINAIR | French painter's "alfresco" (5-3) |
| HIBISCUS | Genus of mostly tropical plants (8) |
| ACQUIRED | Got hold of mostly free wine (8) |
| GOUACHE | Opaque pigment used by Henri Matisse to create the Blue Nudes series and Auguste Herbin to paint Nud |
