1906, Henri Matisse, Nude in a Wood -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Nude in a Wood and its more summary variant, Nude in a Landscape (at right), were painted on board and panel, respectively. They date to 1906 when Matisse returned to Collioure with his family. Confident of his expansive palette, he combined natural color with synthetic color, sketching out his image in sinewy trees and generalized foliage. The lack of finish in Nude in a Landscape suggests that it was just an exercise to map out the motifs of a spatially contained image. In 1907, the fabled art patrons Michael and Sarah Stein bought both paintings. Nude in a wood was the first painting by Matisse to enter an American private collection.
Link to other pictures from the exhibition Vertigo of Color.
1906, Henri Matisse, Nude in a Wood -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Nude in a Wood and its more summary variant, Nude in a Landscape (at right), were painted on board and panel, respectively. They date to 1906 when Matisse returned to Collioure with his family. Confident of his expansive palette, he combined natural color with synthetic color, sketching out his image in sinewy trees and generalized foliage. The lack of finish in Nude in a Landscape suggests that it was just an exercise to map out the motifs of a spatially contained image. In 1907, the fabled art patrons Michael and Sarah Stein bought both paintings. Nude in a wood was the first painting by Matisse to enter an American private collection.
Link to other pictures from the exhibition Vertigo of Color.