Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Woman with an Umbrella
Alternate Title:
Femme à l'ombrelle
Image View:
Overall view in frame
Creator:
Henri Matisse (French painter, 1869-1954)
Location:
repository: Musée Matisse (Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France) N inv. 63.2.14
Location Note:
164, Avenue des Arènes de Cimiez
GPS:
43.719444 7.276111
Date:
1905 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Fauve; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
46 cm (height) x 37.5 cm (width)
Subjects:
apparel; genre; human figure; seascape; beach; seashore; Neo-Impressionist
Description:
In the summer of 1904, while visiting his artist friend Paul Signac at Saint-Tropez, a small fishing village in Provence, Matisse discovered the bright light of southern France, which contributed to a change to a much brighter palette. He also was exposed, through Signac and Henri-Edmond Cross, living in nearby Lavandou, to a pointillist technique of small color dots (points) in complementary colors, perfected in the 1880s by Georges Seurat (1859-1891). This led him to experiment briefly with Neo-Impressionism which immediately preceded the development of his style of Fauvism. (Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art [website]; http://www.metmuseum .org)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-MATISSE-FLO-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Woman with an Umbrella