Henri Matisse - A Glimpse of Notre-Dame in the Late Afternoon 1902
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A Glimpse of Notre-Dame in the Late Afternoon 1902
72x54cm oil/canvas
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
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From Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo:
“A Glimpse of Notre Dame in the Late Afternoon” depicts a view from a window in the apartment and studio where Henri Matisse lived and worked from 1899 until 1907. Matisse returned to this motif many times throughout his career, painting it from the same vantage point but in varying stylistic modes. In this work, he rendered all the compositional elements in the same loose brushwork and color scheme. Here, he unifies a bridge over the River Seine, the east façade of Notre Dame Cathedral, an interior wall, and the edge of the open window shutter. The application of color in block-like strokes and the absence of detail or surface texture in this work resemble that found in the later canvases of Paul Cézanne (French, 1869–1954), like “Morning in Provence,” ca. 1900–6, also in the Albright-Knox’s collection.