Belvederhee

Basalt male torso, 1st century B.C.

Rose quartet. West Hill Nurseries, Inc. : spring catalog. 1926. Back cover.

The Belvedere Torso. The practice of oil painting. 1919.

Wassily Kandinsky

Henri Matisse, Studios

1&2 -Henri Matisse created his cut-outs in three different studios. In 1946 he developed Oceania, the Sky and Oceania, the Sea on the walls of an apartment at 132 Boulevard Montparnasse, Paris.

 3-Towards the end of his time at the Villa le Rêve, in Vence, where he lived and worked between 1943 and 1948, Matisse covered its walls with vibrantly colored cut-paper forms. 

4, 5.6- From 1949 until his death in 1954, Matisse’s cut-outs grew in ambition, expanding throughout the interiors of the Hôtel Régina, Nice.

MOMA