The 49 Artworks of Henri Matisse and with a shape Landscape and ...

'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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Introduction to the Artist and Painting

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This painting portrays Matisse and his wife, facing each other in a blue room, and was created specifically for the collection of Russian art collector Sergei Shchukin, where it hung in his house until it was sized during the Russian Revolution of 1917, and later donated to the public. In the painti...

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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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For The Potato Eaters, Van Gogh’s first major work, he wanted to depict peasants as they really were. He thus chose coarse and ugly models, so they would look as natural as possible in the final work. He made sketches of the work and sent them to his brother, who helped Van Gogh make adjustment in t...

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Introduction

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