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Fine Art lithograph titled
La Danse (The Dance) by Henri Matisse, published in 1939. The lithograph was created for the French art periodical Verve and was printed by Mourlot Freres in Paris. It is a smaller version of Matisse's famous paintings of the same name and is characterized by a "frame" of yellow, blue, and black color areas surrounding the central image.
About the Artwork
The original painting, also called The Dance or La Danse, was made by Henri Matisse in 1910. There are three finished paintings of the subject:
Dance (I) (1909): A preliminary study with a paler color palette and less detail, now housed at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
Dance (1910): The final version, created as a large decorative panel for Russian art collector Sergei Shchukin, which now hangs in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The Dance (1932-1933): A third, and final, version commissioned for the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.
The painting, a classic example of the Fauvist movement, is known for its intense colors, simplified forms, and a sense of emotional liberation. The lithograph in the image is a reproduction of the 1910 version from the Hermitage Museum. It was produced under Matisse's supervision and features a distinct style that resembles the colored paper cut-outs he invented in the late 1930s. |
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