Henri Matisse - Standing Model. Nude Study in Blue 1900
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Standing Model. Nude Study in Blue 1900
73x54cm oil/canvas
Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
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From Tate Modern, London:
Matisse has not disguised the fact that this figure is a model posing in a teaching studio, probably the Académie Carrière in Paris. His principal concern lay with the structure and proportion of the body, and the model’s sinuous pose anticipates the more stylised arabesque figures of his later paintings. Her surroundings are sketched in with broad brushstrokes, becoming abstract planes of colour.