A Dança I (La Danse I) - Henri Matisse

A Dança I (La Danse I) - Henri Matisse

MoMA Museu de Arte Moderna de Nova York, Estados Unidos

OST - 259x390 - 1909

In March 1909, Matisse received a commission from the Russian businessman and collector Sergei Shchukin for two large decorative panels, Dance and Music (now in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg). He made this painting quickly as a compositional study for Dance, which was intended to hang on the landing of a staircase in Shchukin’s home. When it was painted, its simplification of the human body and radical elimination of perspective were attacked as inept or willfully crude, but Matisse felt that it evoked “life and rhythm.”

Nota do blog 1: A pintura mostrada no post é um estudo. A pintura resultante desse estudo está no Museu Hermitage, em São Petersburgo, Rússia.

Nota do blog 2: Data não obtida / Crédito para MoMA.