Matisse chose the subject of dancing figures and set to work in a specially rented warehouse in Nice, France. The work is on three separate canvases.
Summer 1932 - April 1933. Oil on canvas; three panels ˇ On view: Main Room, South Wall ˇ Henri Matisse ˇ Unidentified Maker ˇ Unidentified Maker ˇ Pablo Picasso.
The Dance by Henri Matisse is a triptych mural (15 ft high by 45 ft long) in the Barnes Foundation. It was created in 1932.
This print depicts Matisse's major mural composition Dance, commissioned in autumn 1930 by the renowned American collector Dr. Albert C. Barnes.
Jan 15, 2016 ˇ A new book shows Matisse's works from the Barnes Foundation, which houses one of the world's largest collections of the artist's masterpieces.
In 1930 he went to work in his Nice studio on a big mural (42 ft. by 15) to fill the spandrels over three windows that open on Dr. Barnes's garden.
Barnes, the founder of the Barnes, was Matisse's most serious American collector and in 1932 commissioned the painter to create the mural The Dance for the ...
In an imaginative response to the vastness of his canvas, Matisse attached his charcoal to a long branch of bamboo, taking possession of his surface and ...
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Artwork Details ; Title: Dance: Study for the Barnes Mural (Second Version) ; Artist: Henri Matisse (French, Le Cateau-Cambrésis 1869–1954 Nice) ; Date: 1931–32.
