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1905, Henri Matisse, Woman with an Umbrella at the Seashore [watercolor] -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: This delicately flecked watercolor in a palette of rose, blue, green, and yellow was a preliminary study for a painting, Collioure, Young Woman with an Umbrella. Matisse approached his subject, likely Amélie Matisse, with precision of touch, adjusting the image first in pencil. Unlike oil, watercolor is an unforgiving medium, offering no recourse to revisions. This signed watercolor was shown at the landmark Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1905, and later in Matisse's first U.S. exhibition hosted by the photographer Alfred Stieglitz at his New York gallery.
1905, Henri Matisse, Woman with an Umbrella at the Seashore [watercolor] -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: This delicately flecked watercolor in a palette of rose, blue, green, and yellow was a preliminary study for a painting, Collioure, Young Woman with an Umbrella. Matisse approached his subject, likely Amélie Matisse, with precision of touch, adjusting the image first in pencil. Unlike oil, watercolor is an unforgiving medium, offering no recourse to revisions. This signed watercolor was shown at the landmark Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1905, and later in Matisse's first U.S. exhibition hosted by the photographer Alfred Stieglitz at his New York gallery.