Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Seated Woman, Back Turned to the Open Window
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Seated Woman, Back Turned to the Open Window
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Image View:
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Overall view with frame
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Creator:
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Henri Matisse (French painter, 1869-1954)
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Location:
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repository: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montréal, Québec, Canada) 1949.1015
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Location Note:
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1380 Sherbrooke Street West
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GPS:
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+45.4987-73.5801
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Date:
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ca. 1922 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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73.3 cm (height) x 92.5 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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genre; portrait; seascape; interior; seaside resort; palm trees
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Description:
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Early in his career, Matisse discovered the Mediterranean light that pulsates in his first Fauve paintings. He became a regular visitor to the French Riviera, staying mainly in Nice after 1917, where this canvas was painted. As so often in Matisse’s work, the window itself is the main subject of the painting. A bold foreground is provided by the young model who is posing in a studio that the artist has decorated with richly patterned Oriental fabrics. (Source: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; http://www.mmfa.qc.ca/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-MATISSE-SWBT-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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