1931, Henri Matisse, The Yellow Dress -- Baltimore Museum of Art
From the Philadelphia exhibition label: Matisse struggled to complete this depiction of Lisette Löwengard, his principal model at the end of the 1920s. He began in September 1929, but it took major changes over two years to reach a satisfactory conclusion. Pentimenti, or visible corrections, show that he expanded the taffeta dress, and he decided not to show the chair, resulting in a striking effect of weightlessness. The Yellow Dress was a hard-earned breakthrough which marked Matisse's transition toward a decade of new exploration in his work.
1931, Henri Matisse, The Yellow Dress -- Baltimore Museum of Art
From the Philadelphia exhibition label: Matisse struggled to complete this depiction of Lisette Löwengard, his principal model at the end of the 1920s. He began in September 1929, but it took major changes over two years to reach a satisfactory conclusion. Pentimenti, or visible corrections, show that he expanded the taffeta dress, and he decided not to show the chair, resulting in a striking effect of weightlessness. The Yellow Dress was a hard-earned breakthrough which marked Matisse's transition toward a decade of new exploration in his work.