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Description: Portrait of Madame Matisse: The Green Line

TitlePortrait of Madame Matisse: The Green Line

Creator nameMatisse, Henri

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1905

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions16 × 12 5/8 in. (40.5 × 32.5 cm)

LocationNational Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen

https://open.smk.dk/artwork/image/KMSr171

Accession numberKMSr171

SubjectsPainting, French--20th centuryWomen--PortraitsFauvismArtists' spouses

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6. The Lost Subject of Portraiture: Matisse’s Portrait of 1913

Tamar Garb

The Painted Face: Portraits of Women in France, 1814–1914

~~MATISSE’S PORTRAIT OF 1913, the last of a series of pictures that he made using his wife Amélie as his model, is one of those images that generate stories...

Author

Tamar Garb

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.211-250

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00298.6

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22350&redirecttoanchor=60017

Chapter subject tags:FauvismLeonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519. Joconde, Leonardo da Vinci. ItalianWomen--PortraitsSalon d'automne (Exhibition)Caricatures and cartoons--FranceArtists' spouses

6. Color as the Expression of the Immaterial

Marcia B. Hall

The Power of Color: Five Centuries of European Painting

~~Beginning in the 1880s, painters introduced color that did not represent visual reality. Turning away from materialism and what they often described as decadent urban society, these painters delved inside themselves for ways to express the values they held dear. Although disassociated from institutional religion, Paul Gauguin and...

Author

Marcia B. Hall

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.229-253

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00228.007

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20830&redirecttoanchor=60017

Chapter subject tags:Painting--TechniquePost-Impressionism (Art)Painting, French--20th centuryPainting, Dutch--19th centurySymbolism of colorsFauvism

3. Private Lives in Public Spaces

John Klein

Matisse Portraits

We have seen the analogy Matisse made between artistic and genetic creation, and it should be no surprise that his principal field of inscription for this analogy was his own family. Although the drawing of his mother that prompted the...

Author

John Klein

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.63-109

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00299.4

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15689&redirecttoanchor=60017

Chapter subject tags:PortraitsMarriage in artFamilies in artFauvismArt criticism

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