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Matisse depicts his model and companion of many years, Lydia Delectorskaya, in an exotic Moroccan clothing, surrounded by a complex of abstract design and exotic color. [1] This is an example of one of the final groups of oil paintings in Matisse's career, in 1950 he stopped painting oil paintings in favor of creating paper cutouts.
Lydia Nikolaevna Délectorskaya (23 June 1910, Tomsk - 16 March 1998, Paris) was a Russian refugee and model best known for her collaboration with Henri Matisse from 1932 onwards. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Early life
Although the Centre Pompidou cites Lydia Delectorskaya as the original model, [1] other candidates for the inspiration for the painting include Elvira Popescu, Elena Văcărescu, Anna de Noailles and Marthe Bibesco. [2] Matisse painted ten versions of La Blouse Romaine from 1939 to 1945. [3]
Deux fillettes, fond jaune et rouge (Two Girls in a Yellow and Red Interior) (1947), oil on canvas, 61 x 49.8 cm (24 x 19 5/8 inches) is a painting by Henri Matisse in the collection of the Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania.
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.
The Art Institute of Chicago, where Bathers by a River is on display in the permanent collection, indicates that World War I may have influenced the painting's final form: "The sobriety and hint of danger in Bathers by a River may in part reflect the artist’s concerns during the terrible, war-torn period during which he completed it."
The Blue Nudes is a series of collages, and related color lithographs, by Henri Matisse, made from paper cut-outs depicting nude figures in various positions.Restricted by his physical condition after his surgery for stomach cancer, Matisse began creating art by cutting and painting sheets of paper by hand; these Matisse viewed as independent artworks in their own right.
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".