The Matisse Frond: Open Fern Leaf RingMatisse confined to a wheelchair created his most joyful work by cutting bold leaf and plant forms from painted paper. His fronds and fern shapes danced across gallery walls with a freedom his body no longer had. This ring translates that same botanical liberation into gold: a single open fern frond rises from a slim band, its leaves reaching outward like a cutout from one of Matisse's most celebrated paper collages. Art history, worn on the finger.