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Follow the green stripe from the hairline toward the nose, then compare the colors on either side of the face with those directly behind them.
In this 1905 portrait, Matisse divides the face with a conspicuous green band. Warm yellow and cooler pink sit on either side, while the background is split into its own colored areas. Oil paint describes the sitter through these relationships rather than through a consistent naturalistic skin color.
Oil on canvas · 40.5 × 32.5 cm · SMK — National Gallery of Denmark · Fauvism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Portræt af Madame Matisse. Den grønne stribe
- Artist
- Henri Matisse
- Date
- 1905
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 40.5 × 32.5 cm
- Credit line
- SMK — National Gallery of Denmark, KMSr171
- Image license
- Public Domain Mark 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- SMK — National Gallery of Denmark
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.