"The Window" by Henry Matisse at the Plymouth Community Arts Council

The Window

by Henry Matisse (1869-1954)

Date: 1916

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 57 1/2 x 46 in.

• The first Matisse painting in a U.S. museum.

• Matisse used vibrant colors and flattened surfaces, which balanced his desire to reproduce the world accurately in a two-dimensional painting.

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