La dance (1)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1909
Height:
259.7 cm  (102 1/4 in.)
Width:
390.1 cm  (153 9/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

Additional titles

The dance (1)

Description

Five naked figures performing a round dance.

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1
Image on the Website of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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

"The Dance (1)" forms a group with "Music" and "The Dance (2), also painted in 1909-1910. See RIdIM records 6144 and 6146.

RIdIM record id

6145