Music (Matisse)
Henri Matisse · 1910
The story
Music (La Musique) is a wall-size painting made by Henri Matisse in 1910. The painting was commissioned by Sergei Shchukin, who hung it alongside Matisse's 1910 Dance on the staircase of his Moscow mansion. Matisse made the painting without any preparatory sketches, and thus the painting bears many traces of modifications. One can virtually trace the steps Matisse took to find the intended effect. As in Dance, the aim was to show man's attainment of a state of completeness by immersion in creativity.
The painting is now in the collection of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- Artist
- Henri Matisse
- Date
- 1910
- Collection
- Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Movement
- Fauvism
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 260 × 389 cm
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