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Head of a Woman, from 'Les miroirs profonds: Henri Matisse', Paris, Pierre à Feu: 1947 Wood engraving on paper 24.13 cm x 20 cm Ann Arbor University of Michigan Museum of Art [23] Pierre à Feu, bookcover for "Les miroirs profonds: Henri Matisse", Paris, Pierre: 1947 Color lithograph on paper 24.29 cm x 20.96 cm Ann Arbor
Woman with a Hat (French: La femme au chapeau) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Henri Matisse.It depicts Matisse's wife, Amélie Matisse. [1] It was painted in 1905 and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne during the autumn of the same year, along with works by André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck and several other artists later known as "Fauves".
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French: [ɑ̃ʁi emil bənwa matis]; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship.
It depicts Matisse's assistant Lydia Delectorskaya. This painting is an example of Henri Matisse's mature decorative style. This painting is an example of Henri Matisse's mature decorative style. Matisse depicts his model and companion of many years, Lydia Delectorskaya, in an exotic Moroccan clothing, surrounded by a complex of abstract design ...
Henri Matisse, the French artist known for his use of vibrant colors, painted “Dame à la robe blanche (Woman in White)” in 1946, depicting Matisse’s neighbor, the journalist Elvire Van ...
[7] Others have proposed that Matisse presented black women as beautiful. [8] Other scholars propose that the figure may be of another famous dancer, Yvette Chauviré. [3] Matisse had created an earlier work about a dancer (Creole Dancer, 1950) that art critic Louis Aragon identified as Katherine Dunham, who Matisse had seen perform.
The woman is proportional to the table. The woman gives context to the time of the painting with the clothing she is wearing and the action she is completing. In the book Matisse: The Man and His Art, Katharine Kuh compares Harmony in Red with Matisse's painting Bathers with a Turtle, completed between 1907 and 1908.
Odalisque With Raised Arms is a painting by Henri Matisse, completed in 1923. The oil on canvas measuring 23 by 26 inches is held in the National Gallery of Art , in Washington D.C. . Matisse's style changed and evolved drastically throughout his career, including his wide and varying collection of paintings depicting female nudes.