Henri Matisse · 1908
Harmony in Red (The Red Room)
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Matisse's vermilion-saturated dining room — a maid setting fruit on the table, a window opening on a green spring garden. Pure colour as architecture. Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
Up to 10 × 8 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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The story of Harmony in Red (The Red Room)
The Dessert: Harmony in Red is a painting by Henri Matisse. Previously titled Harmony in Blue, the painting had a blue background when Matisse first exhibited it in 1908. In 1909, Matisse changed the blue to red, retitling it The Dessert: Harmony in Red.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Henri Matisse
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.
All Henri Matisse prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
