Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
The Dance (Harmony in Blue)
Alternate Title:
La Danse - Harmonie bleue
Image View:
Detail, middle lunette
Creator:
Henri Matisse (French painter, 1869-1954)
Location:
repository: Musée Matisse (Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France) N inv. 63.3.3
Location Note:
164, Avenue des Arènes de Cimiez
GPS:
43.719444 7.276111
Date:
1930-1931 (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:
abstraction; human figure; dance
Description:
Painted in Nice. There is a photograph showing Matisse drawing a huge sketch of this on a wall of canvas panels using charcoal mounted on a long bamboo pole. He would then surround the figures with cutout pieces of paper, making adjustments until the paper was replaced with paint. This was for a commission for a mural to decorate the main hall of the Barnes Foundation in Merion Station, PA. The proposed site, calling for three lunettes above glazed doors leading on to a garden, was extremely awkward, which led to his new method of working. As he was completing Dance I, he realized he had been given the wrong measurements, and created Dance II (Barnes Foundation). This work is a small color study for Dance I (now in Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris). (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-MATISSE-LDHB-A04
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

The Dance (Harmony in Blue)