La musique

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1939
Height:
115.3 cm  (45 3/8 in.)
Width:
115.3 cm  (45 3/8 in.)
framed size: 139.7 x 139.7 cm
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: RCA1940:13]Room of Contemporary Art Fund, 1940

Description

A woman seated on the right seems to be playing a guitar while a seated woman on the left listens. An open book of legible but non-representational music rests on a table in the foreground.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guitar [3237]

Musical works

legible music notation

Image URLs

image link 1
image link 2
Museé de la guitare image

RIdIM record id

4479