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Upgrade your walls with Still Life with Dance - Henri Matisse - Oil Painting Wall Decor. Every still life reproduction is painted entirely by hand, so the surface carries the depth and variation of an original oil painting rather than the flatness of a digital canvas print.
1909
Oil on canvas
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.
In this 1909 "still-life" Matisse included a recent painting in the background, Dance I, now at MoMA, New York. Here at upper left it includes the detail of outstretched hands based on Michelangelo's Creation of Adam. Historians have consequently concluded that Matisse's theme is the creation of life and note that there are both real and "painted" fruit on the table. The flowers also link the foreground to the painting behind.{ref1} These are good observations but what's the purpose? To know that, we must see more.
For starters, the table is not really a table. It is Matisse's "palette" held close to his body which is why it looms so large in the foreground. We see it from his viewpoint; his palette has become a table. In both photos at left Matisse's rectangular palette becomes a parallelogram, the same form as the "table". For artists, it is a natural metaphor. In Italian the word for palette literally means a small table which is, in reality, what Picasso always used for a palette too.{ref2} The pink cloth is key as well, substituting for the piece of fabric painters use to wipe away paint or rub it in, a common but unseen motif throughout centuries of art history.
Collectors often choose this still life image when searching for still life oil painting that feels substantial rather than decorative or disposable.
Oil on canvas remains the reference standard for fauvist reproductions. Our artists apply pigment by hand, blending the still life tones directly on the surface for depth that a printed still life oil painting simply cannot match.
fauvist canvas wall art is one of the easiest ways to warm an entryway. Pair this piece with natural linen, dark wood, or brushed brass, and let the hand painted surface do the rest.
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| Size | Price |
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| 20 X 24 in | $58.48 |
| 24 X 36 in | $91.98 |
| 30 X 40 in | $123.48 |
| 36 X 48 in | $176.98 |
| 48 X 72 in | $329.48 |
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