The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room)
Henri Matisse · 1907
The story
The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room) is a painting by Henri Matisse. Previously titled Harmony in Blue, the painting had a blue background when Matisse first exhibited it in 1908. In 1909, Matisse changed the blue to red, retitling it The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room).
- Artist
- Henri Matisse
- Date
- 1907
- Collection
- Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Movement
- Fauvism
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 180.5 × 221 cm
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