Henri Matisse - Red Studio 1911

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Red Studio 1911

Red Studio 1911
181x219cm oil/canvas
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City

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From the The Museum of Modern Art, New York City:
"Where I got the color red—to be sure, I just don't know," Matisse once remarked. "I find that all these things . . . only become what they are to me when I see them together with the color red." This painting features a small retrospective of Matisse's recent painting, sculpture, and ceramics, displayed in his studio. The artworks appear in color and in detail, while the room's architecture and furnishings are indicated only by negative gaps in the red surface. The composition's central axis is a grandfather clock without hands—it is as if, in the oasis of the artist's studio, time were suspended.