Music (Matisse)

1910 painting by Henri Matisse

Music

Artist| Henri Matisse
Year| 1910
Medium| Oil on canvas
Dimensions| 260 cm × 389 cm (100 in × 153 in)
Location| The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Music (La Musique) is a wall-size painting made by Henri Matisse in 1910. The painting was commissioned by Sergei Shchukin, who hung it with Matisse's 1910 Dance on the staircase of his Moscow mansion. Matisse made the painting without any preparatory sketches, and thus the painting bears many traces of modifications. One can virtually trace the steps Matisse took to find the intended effect. As in Dance, the aim was to show man's attainment of a state of completeness by immersion in creativity.

The painting is now in the collection of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.[1]

## See also

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* List of works by Henri Matisse

## References

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1. ^ State Hermitage Museum - Music

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Works|

| 1890s–1900s|

* Woman Reading (1894)
* Landscape, the Pink Wall (1898)
* Academy Study of a Man (1900-1901)
* A Glimpse of Notre-Dame in the Late Afternoon (1902)
* Luxury, Calm and Pleasure (1904)
* The Green Stripe (1905)
* The Open Window (1905)
* Woman with a Hat (1905)
* View of Collioure (1905)
* Landscape at Collioure (1905)
* The Red Carpets (1906)
* Le bonheur de vivre (1906)
* Marguerite Reading (1906)
* The Young Sailor II (1906)
* Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt (1906)
* Madras Rouge (1907)
* Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra) (1907)
* The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room) (1908)
* Game of Bowls (1908)
* Bathers with a Turtle (1908)
* Portrait of Greta Moll (1908)
* Seated Nude (1909)

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1910s–1920s|

* Dance (1910)
* Music (1910)
* Still Life with Geraniums (1910)
* Interior with Aubergines (1911)
* The Red Studio (1911)
* The Conversation (1908–1912)
* Goldfish (1912)
* The Little Mulatta (1912)
* View over the Bay of Tangier (1912)
* Zorah on the Terrace (1912)
* Window at Tangier (1912)
* Paysage marocain (Acanthes) (1912)
* Seated Riffian (1912)
* Arab Coffeehouse (1912–1913)
* View of Notre-Dame (1914)
* Woman on a High Stool (1914)
* The Yellow Curtain (1915)
* Bathers by a River (1917)
* The Painter and His Model (1917)
* The Music Lesson (1917)
* The Piano Lesson (1918)
* Odalisque with Raised Arms (1923)
* Yellow Odalisque (1926)

1930s–1950s|

* The Dance II (1932)
* Purple Robe and Anemones (1937)
* Woman in a Purple Coat (1937)
* La Blouse Roumaine (1940)
* Annelies, White Tulips and Anemones (1944)
* Young Woman Lying on a White Fur (1944)
* Asia (1946)
* Young Woman in White on a Red Background (1946)
* The Knife Thrower (1947)
* Deux fillettes, fond jaune et rouge (1947)
* The Plum Blossoms (1948)
* Beasts of the Sea (1950)
* The Sorrows of the King (1952)
* Black Leaf on Green Background (1952)
* La Négresse (1952)
* The Snail (1953)
* The Boat (1953)

Series|

* The Back Series (1909–1930)
* Goldfish paintings and etchings (1912–1929)
* Blue Nudes (1952)

Chapels|

* Chapel of the Rosary

Art books|

* Jazz (1947 book)

People|

* Pierre Matisse (son)
* Paul Matisse (grandson)
* Sophie Matisse (great-granddaughter)
* Lydia Delectorskaya (model)
* Gustave Moreau (teacher)

Museums|

* Matisse Museum (Le Cateau-Cambrésis)
* Musée Matisse (Nice)

Related|

* Fauvism
* An Essay on Matisse (1996 documentary)
* Matisse (crater)

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