Henri Matisse · 1910
Music
Posters from $15 · Canvas from $39
Matisse's companion to The Dance — five red figures making music against cobalt and emerald. A flute, a violin, three voices. 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 Music
Music is a wall-size painting made by Henri Matisse in 1910. The painting was commissioned by Sergei Shchukin, who hung it alongside Matisse's 1910 Dance on the staircase of his Moscow mansion. Matisse made the painting without any preparatory sketches, and thus the painting bears many traces of modifications. One can virtually trace the steps Matisse took to find the intended effect. As in Dance, the aim was to show man's attainment of a state of completeness by immersion in creativity.
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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