La musique

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1910

Height:

260.0 cm  (102 3/8 in.)

Width:

389.0 cm  (153 1/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Additional titles

Description

Five naked figures, one playing an aulos-like instrument, another playing a very small violin.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573]
Aulos [4173]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 2

Bibliographic references

Költzsch, Georg-W., ed. Morosow und Schtschukin: Die russischen Sammler. Katalog der Ausstellungen im Museum Folkwang Essen 1993, im Puschkin–Museum Moskau und in der Eremitage St. Petersburg 1994 (Cologne: DuMont 1993) 422-30.


Thomas, Dania. Henri Matisse: „Der Tanz“ und „Die Musik“: Eine kunsthistorische Auseinandersetzung (Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag, 2008).

Fondation Louis Vuitton, Anne Baldassari, eds. Icônes de l'art moderne: la collection Chtchoukine: catalogue de l'exposition, Musée d'État de l'Ermitage, Musée d'État des beaux-arts Pouchkine (Paris: Gallimard, 2016).


Semenova, Natalya and André-Marc Delocque-Fourcaud. The Collector: The story of Sergei Shchukin and his lost masterpieces, transl. by Anthony Roberts (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2018).

Kostenevich, Albert. "Matisse and Shchukin: A collector's choice", Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 16/1 (1990) 27-92.

Thibaud, Paul. "Les ‘Danses’ de Matisse", Esprit 200/3-4 (1994) 40–63.

Notes

"Music" forms a group with "The Dance (1)" and "The Dance (2)", also painted in 1909-1910. See RIdIM records 6145 and 6146.

RIdIM record id

6144