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Peonies (Les Pivoines) - Henri Matisse - Fauvist Canvas Wall Art is part of our hand painted oil painting collection from the Henri Matisse Paintings selection. Each canvas is worked by a trained artist, then inspected before dispatch — a practical route to owning fauvist wall decor at a fraction of gallery pricing.
Painted in Collioure, 1907
Oil on canvas
The months that Matisse spent at Collioure during the first decade of the twentieth century--the summers of 1905, 1906, and 1907 (fig. 1), as well as the winter between the last two--were critical to the formation of his artistic vision. It was at Collioure that his experimentation with form and color flowered first into Fauvism, and then into the flattened, highly reductive style that would rival Cubism as the most advanced method of modern painting between 1908 and 1914. Painted at Collioure in the late spring of 1907, Les Pivoines combines the varied, gestural brushwork of Fauvism with the abstract, intangible space of Matisse's revolutionary decorative mode. Within weeks of its creation, it was acquired for the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune by the critic Félix Fénéon, said to possess the most discerning eye for modern art in all of Paris. The painting was featured in an exhibition of still-lifes at Bernheim-Jeune in November 1907, and Matisse still considered it sufficiently innovative and important that he included it in a solo retrospective at the gallery in 1910, intended to demonstrate his steady progression toward a reinvigorated modern art. Jack Flam has written, "For two years [1906-1907] Matisse moved indirectly but nevertheless steadily toward the formulation of a space that was flat and largely intangible. Having already moved away from light and atmosphere, he was now moving away from consistent three-dimensionality. The illusionary space behind the picture plane and the real flat surface of the painting were being framed within a new harmonic and pictorial structure. The ideal of Matisse's painting was increasingly becoming a decorative one--decorative not in the pejorative sense of superficial but rather in the abstract musical sense with which the term was associated at the time" (Matisse, The Man and His Art, 1869-1918, Ithaca, New York, 1986, p. 215).
The still life subject is rebuilt stroke by stroke in oil, giving the finished canvas the depth expected of fauvist oil painting wall decor.
This is a genuine hand painted oil painting, not a canvas print. Our painters match the palette of Peonies (Les Pivoines) by eye and build up the still life forms in thin layers, which is what gives the finished still life oil painting its luminosity.
Hang this still life oil painting above a sofa, console, or bed to give a dining room an instant focal point. Its fauvist palette works with both minimalist and period interiors, and the piece also makes a considered gift for housewarmings, weddings, and art lovers.
In short: Peonies (Les Pivoines) - Henri Matisse - Fauvist Canvas Wall Art combines a fauvist composition, a 100% hand painted oil painting process, and the flexibility of made-to-order canvas sizes — a dependable choice for still life oil painting and dining room wall art.
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 20 X 24 in | $47.98 |
| 24 X 36 in | $77.98 |
| 30 X 40 in | $104.48 |
| 36 X 48 in | $149.48 |
| 48 X 72 in | $291.98 |
The sizes shown are the reproduction canvas sizes we paint to order. The dimensions given in a work's description refer to the original artwork and will differ from the sizes offered here. Not sure? Read the size guide or e-mail us.
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Every canvas is painted by hand in oils on artist-grade stretched canvas, with an extra blank border left for framing. How to care for your painting.
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