Henri Matisse · 1910
The Dance
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Matisse's revolutionary frieze — five naked figures linked in a circular dance against pure cobalt sky and emerald ground. The painting that announced 20th-century art. Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
Up to 10 × 7 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 The Dance
Dance (La Danse) is a painting made by Henri Matisse in 1910, at the request of Russian businessman and art collector Sergei Shchukin, who bequeathed the large decorative panel to the Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg, where it hangs beside Music. The composition of dancing figures is commonly recognized as "a key point of (Matisse's) career and in the development of modern painting". A preliminary version of the work, sketched by Matisse in 1909 as a study for the work, resides at MoMA in New York, where it has been labeled Dance (I).
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.
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