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Miss tea when involved in painting (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

matisse

'painting' is the definition.
(a painting by Henri Matisse)

'miss tea when involved' is the wordplay.
'when involved' indicates an anagram (involved can mean confusing or complex).
'miss'+'tea'='misstea'
'misstea' with letters rearranged gives 'MATISSE'.

'in' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for matisse that I've seen before include "French painter, d. 1954" , "20th century French painter" , "Is mates turned on the French painter" , "Henri -, nineteenth-twentieth century French painter/sculptor" , "Henri ---, Twentieth Century painter" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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