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For the mural by Matisse, see The Dance II.
Dance (I) 
Artist Henri Matisse Year 1909 Type Oil on canvas Dimensions 259.7 cm × 390.1 cm (102.2 in × 153.6 in) Location Museum of Modern Art, New York City The Dance (La Danse) are two related paintings made by Henri Matisse between 1909 and 1910. The first, preliminary version is Matisse's study for the second version. The composition or arrangement of dancing figures is reminiscent of Blake's watercolour "Oberon, Titania and Puck with fairies dancing" from 1786[1].
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Dance (I)
In March 1909 Matisse painted a preliminary version of this work, known as Dance (I)[2] It was compositional study and uses paler colors and less detail.[3] The painting was highly regarded by the artist who once called it "the overpowering climax of luminosity"; it is also featured in the background of Matisse's La Danse with Nasturtiums (1912).
It was donated by Nelson A. Rockefeller in honor of Alfred H. Barr, Jr. to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Dance
Dance 
Artist Henri Matisse Year 1910 Type Oil on canvas Dimensions 260 cm × 391 cm (102.4 in × 153.9 in) Location The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Dance, is a large decorative panel, painted with a companion piece, Music, specifically for the Russian businessman and art collector Sergei Shchukin, with whom Matisse had a long association. Until the October Revolution of 1917, this painting hung together with Music on the staircase of Shchukin's Moscow mansion.[4]
The painting shows five dancing figures, painted in a strong red, set against a very simplified green landscape and deep blue sky. It reflects Matisse's incipient fascination with primitive art, and uses a classic Fauvist color palette: the intense warm colors against the cool blue-green background and the rhythmical succession of dancing nudes convey the feelings of emotional liberation and hedonism. The painting is often associated with the "Dance of the Young Girls" from Igor Stravinsky's famous musical work The Rite of Spring.
Dance is commonly recognized as "a key point of (Matisse's) career and in the development of modern painting".[5] It generally resides in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, but was loaned to Hermitage Amsterdam for a period of six weeks from April 1 to May 9, 2010.[6]
Notes and references
- ^ http://www.william-blake.org/Oberon,-Titania-and-Puck-with-Fairies-Dancing.html
- ^ John Elderfield. Henri Matisse: A Retrospective. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1992. Page 181.
- ^ MoMA.org - Dance (I)
- ^ State Hermitage Museum - Dance
- ^ Russell T. Clement. Four French Symbolists. Greenwood Press, 1996. Page 114.
- ^ Hermitage.nl - De Dans
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Henri Matisse Works (List) Woman Reading (1894) · Le Mur Rose (Landscape, the Pink Wall) (1898) · Notre-Dame, une fin d'après-midi (A Glimpse of Notre-Dame in the Late Afternoon) (1902) · Luxe, Calme et Volupté (Luxury, Calm and Pleasure) (1904) · La Raie Verte (The Green Line) (1905) · The Open Window (1905) · Woman with a Hat (1905) · Les toits de Collioure (1905) · Landscape at Collioure (1905) · Le bonheur de vivre (1906) · The Young Sailor II (1906) · Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt (1906) · Madras Rouge (1907) · Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra) (1907) · The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room) (1908) · Game of Bowls (1908) · Bathers with a Turtle (1908) · Dance (1910) · Music (1910) · Still Life with Geraniums (1910) · L'Atelier Rouge (1911) · The Conversation (1908–1912) · Zorah on the Terrace (1912) · Window at Tangier (1912) · Le Rifain assis (1912) · View of Notre-Dame (1914) · Woman on a High Stool (1914) · Le rideau jaune (The Yellow Curtain) (1915) · The Window (1916) · The Painter and His Model (1917) · Interior A Nice (1920) · Odalisque with Raised Arms (1923) · Yellow Odalisque (1926) · The Dance II (mural) (1932) · Robe violette et Anémones (1937) · Woman in a Purple Coat (1937) · La Blouse Roumaine (1940) · Le Lanceur De Couteaux (1943) · Annelies, White Tulips and Anemones (1944) · L'Asie (1946) · Deux fillettes, fond jaune et rouge (1947) · The Plum Blossoms (1948) · Beasts of the Sea (1950) · The Sorrows of the King (1952) · Black Leaf on Green Background (1952) · La Négresse (1952) · Blue Nude II (1952) · The Snail (1953) · Le Bateau (1953)
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