1935, Henri Matisse, Large Reclining Nude -- Baltimore Museum of Art
From the Philadelphia exhibition label: The highly experimental Large Reclining Nude exemplifies Matisse's reinvention of his approach to easel painting in 1935. Small pinholes (visible only on very close examination) are evidence that cut papers were used to plan the composition. The in-progress photographs shown nearby reveal an organic sequence of formal adjustments that radically simplified the form of the body and merged the figure and background. Between May and October of that year, Matisse gradually altered the forms of the woman and the picture space until he found its dynamic equilibrium of sinuous and straight lines, patterned and plain areas, stillness and dynamism, and cold and warm tones.
1935, Henri Matisse, Large Reclining Nude -- Baltimore Museum of Art
From the Philadelphia exhibition label: The highly experimental Large Reclining Nude exemplifies Matisse's reinvention of his approach to easel painting in 1935. Small pinholes (visible only on very close examination) are evidence that cut papers were used to plan the composition. The in-progress photographs shown nearby reveal an organic sequence of formal adjustments that radically simplified the form of the body and merged the figure and background. Between May and October of that year, Matisse gradually altered the forms of the woman and the picture space until he found its dynamic equilibrium of sinuous and straight lines, patterned and plain areas, stillness and dynamism, and cold and warm tones.