The Snail (L'escargot) is a collage by Henri Matisse.

[1] It consists of a number of colored shapes arranged in a spiral pattern, as suggested by the title.

Matisse first drew the snail, then used the colored paper to interpret it.

[1] From the early-to-mid-1940s Matisse was in increasingly poor health, and was suffering from arthritis.

Eventually by 1950 he stopped painting in favor of gouaches découpées, paper cutouts.