Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Still life with Pomegranates

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Still life with Pomegranates
Alternate Title: 
Nature morte aux grenades
Image View: 
Detail of pomegranates on a plate, one split open
Creator: 
Henri Matisse (French painter, 1869-1954)
Location: 
repository: Musée Matisse (Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France) N inv. 63.1.1
Location Note: 
164, Avenue des Arènes de Cimiez
GPS: 
+43.719444+7.276111
Date: 
1947 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
French
Style Period: 
Twentieth century
Work Type 1: 
painting (visual work)
Classification: 
Paintings
Material: 
oil paint on canvas
Technique: 
oil painting (technique)
Subjects: 
decorative arts; still life; fruit; domestic interiors; fabric patterns; window
Description: 
Painted in Vence, part of a series, Interieurs de Vence, created between 1946-1948. In January 1941 Matisse underwent an operation for a tumor, which left him an invalid. Unable to travel abroad, he constructed his own tropical environment in his palatial apartment in the Hôtel Régina, on the hill above Nice in the suburb of Cimiez, where he had lived since 1938. Just as his first period of prolonged convalescence in 1890 had brought him into painting, so the second led to his late style: to grand interior paintings from 1946 to 1948, to the decoration of the Chapelle du Rosaire at Vence in 1948-1951 and to a series of paper cut-outs which were his final works. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-MATISSE-NMG-A02
Rights: 
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