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At MoMA in New York, Matisse's Red Workshop exhibits almost all of its secrets

2022-04-29T11:42:02.450Z


In a reconstruction of this imaginary space, the museum brings together for the first time the works and objects that the artist represented in his painting.


In

L'Atelier rouge

, a canvas from 1911, Henri Matisse had staged his paintings and sculptures, like a portrait of his art.

One hundred and eleven years later, the MoMA in New York brings this work back to life, bringing together the works in the work for the first time.

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At the center of the exhibition (May 1-September 10) at the Museum of Modern Art, there is therefore

L'Atelier rouge

, a very imaginary representation of Henri Matisse's studio in Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the Paris suburbs, and emblematic painting of an avant-garde artist, a pioneer of bright colors, who became one of the greatest painters of the 20th century.

The red, which invades the floor and the walls, was

“so bold, at the time”,

in 1911, underlines the chief curator of painting and sculpture of the MoMA, Ann Temkin.

Among the paintings appearing in

L'Atelier rouge,

Le Luxe II, TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP

All around, the museum has brought together for the first time a very large part of the objects appearing in the painting: six paintings, two sculpted bronzes, a terracotta piece and a ceramic dish.

They were made by Matisse between 1898 - he was 28 years old and barely graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris -, and 1911, when the Russian industrialist and collector Sergueï Chtchoukine placed an order with him.

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"Treasure hunt"

L'Atelier rouge

is

"in reality a portrait of his own life as an artist"

at the time, argues Ann Temkin.

Thus, the visitor can admire the real

Corsica, courtyard of the mill

(1898), with impressionist inspirations, which appears in the Atelier rouge, placed almost negligently on the ground, or the

Nude with a white scarf

(1909), in real size .

In life-size, there is also

Le Jeune Marin II

(1906), a colorful portrait symbolizing the current of Fauvism.

The year preceding this work, at the Salon d'Automne in Paris, Matisse and others had drawn the wrath of critics, and the term

"fauve",

in particular because of its explosive colors, sometimes unreal, as in

The Woman in the Hat

.

Out of ten exhibited works from the painting, two already belong to MoMA, like

L'Atelier rouge

, three come from the National Gallery of Denmark, and the others have been gleaned from museums and private collections.

"We went on a treasure hunt,"

smiles Ann Temkin, for whom this type of exhibition provides a different perspective compared to a major retrospective.

"Let's not overwhelm the public with '

Oh, that's a lot of art'

.

Let's rather invite them to get to know more fully what they are watching,”

she defends.

Of the paintings by

L'Atelier rouge

, one is missing, a large nude on a pink background.

Matisse had asked for its destruction after his death, which occurred in 1954 in Nice, at the age of 84.

The exhibition also recounts the journey of

L'Atelier rouge,

which was finally refused by Chtchoukine.

The painting was bought in 1927 by a London high society meeting place, The Gargoyle club.

MoMA acquired it in 1949.

Source: lefigaro

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