The 1000++ Artworks of topic Music and containing the word henri matisse, fauvism, music, 1950

'Music forms a pair to ''The Dance'', also painted in 1910. After the collector Sergey Shchukin commissioned ''The Dance'', he wrote to Matisse asking for another panel on the subject of music. It is only when seen together that they acquire their full resonance.'

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There are two versions of The Dance, the first, painted in March of 1909, is the study for the second one, completed in 1910. The large work, painted along the lines of William Blake’s painting “Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing,” was painted along with its companion piece, Music, which ...

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