Woman Reading
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| Artist | Henri Matisse |
| Year | 1895 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 61.5 cm × 48 cm (24.2 in × 19 in) |
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Woman Reading (La Liseuse) is an oil-on-board painting executed in 1895 by the French artist Henri Matisse. It is displayed at the Musée Matisse, in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, having been on loan from the Centre Pompidou since 2002. It shows a woman, dressed in black, seated and reading, with her back to the viewer, in the calmness of a somewhat cluttered room. Matisse incorporated a self-portrait into the painting in the form of a framed drawing hanging on the wall at the upper left.
The painting was originally exhibited at the Salon of 1896 held in Paris by the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and marked his first signicant success.
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References
- 1 2 Klein, John (2001). Matisse Portraits. Yale University press. p. 38. ISBN 9780300081008.
- ↑ (in French) "Catalogue entry".
- ↑ Roe, Sue. In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris, 1900-1910. Penguin, 2015. p.33
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