Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Flowers and Fruit [study for a tile mural]
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Alternate Title:
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Fleurs et fruits
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Image View:
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Detail, a bright blue panel of greater height, punctuating the rest of the mural
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Creator:
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Henri Matisse (French artist, 1869-1954)
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Location:
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repository: Musée Matisse (Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France) N inv. 63.2.101
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Location Note:
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164, Avenue des Arènes de Cimiez
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GPS:
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+43.719444+7.276111
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Date:
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1952-1953 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Modernist; Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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watercolor (painting)
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Work Type 2:
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cutout
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Work Type 3:
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cartoon (working drawing)
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Classification:
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Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
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Material:
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gouache on paper, cutout and mounted on paper
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Technique:
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collage (technique); painting and painting techniques
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Subjects:
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abstraction; botanical; decorative arts; pilaster; flowers; large scale; paper cutout; study
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Description:
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Created in Nice. This large scale paper cutout study for a tile mural was commissioned by L.A. arts patron Frances Lasker Brody. Matisse began work in January of 1953, using his customary practice of cutting sheets of paper which had been hand-painted in gouache in custom colors. His first study was Large Composition with Masks, now in the National Gallery, Washington. Flowers and Fruit was his second design. He created a third design (Apollo, Moderna Museet, Stockholm). The Brodys rejected all three, and Matisse then designed The Sheaf, which they accepted. All three attempts at the L.A. commission are framed by classical pilasters and The Sheaf is more organic. (Source: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) [website]; http://www.lacma.org)
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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-FFM-A07
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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