Dance ( La Danse ) is a painting made by Henri Matisse in 1910, at the request of Russian businessman and art collector Sergei Shchukin , who bequeathed the large decorative panel to the Hermitage Museum , in Saint Petersburg . The composition of dancing figures is commonly recognized as "a key point of (Matisse's) career and in the development of modern painting". A preliminary version of the work, sketched by Matisse in 1909 as a study for the work, resides at MoMA in New York , where it has been labeled Dance (I) .
21-407: La Danse may refer to: Art [ edit ] Dance (Matisse) or La Danse , a painting by Henri Matisse La Danse (Bouguereau) , a painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau La Danse , an artwork by Shelomo Selinger at La Défense, Paris La Danse , a sculpture by Francesc Viladomat at Casa de la Vall , Andorra La Danse (Carpeaux) ,
42-448: A composition by Yasushi Akutagawa for piano Film [ edit ] La Danse (film) , a 2009 French documentary See also [ edit ] La Dance (disambiguation) The Dance (disambiguation) Dance (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title La Danse . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
63-472: A preliminary version of this work, known as Dance (I) . It was a compositional study and uses paler colors and less detail. The painting was highly regarded by the artist who once called it "the overpowering climax of luminosity"; it is also featured in the background of Matisse's Nasturtiums with the Painting "Dance I" , (1912). It was donated by Nelson A. Rockefeller in honor of Alfred H. Barr Jr. to
84-495: A sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Music [ edit ] La Danse , a ballet choreographed by Adeline Genée with music composed by Dora Bright La Danse , a ballet composed by Ernest Ford "La danse", a composition by Ethel Smyth "La Danse", a song by Susan Herndon from In the Attic "La Danse", a song by Bündock from Cinéma La danse , a composition by Moritz Moszkowski for piano La danse ,
105-410: A strong red, set against a very simplified green landscape and deep blue sky. It reflects Matisse's incipient fascination with primitive art , and uses a classic Fauvist color palette: the intense warm colors against the cool blue-green background and the rhythmical succession of dancing nudes convey the feelings of emotional liberation and hedonism . The painting is often associated with the "Dance of
126-531: A trip to Paris in 1897, when he bought his first Monet . He later bought numerous works to a total of 258 paintings decorating the walls of his palatial home in Moscow . By 1914, Shchukin owned thirteen Monet paintings, including the iconic Lady in the Garden and the smaller but complete version of Picnic ; three by Renoir ; eight by Cézanne , including Carnival ( Mardi Gras ); four by Van Gogh , including
147-619: The Portrait of Dr. Felix Rey (but the most famous Van Gogh paintings in Russia, Prison Courtyard and The Red Vineyard , were purchased by Shchukin's friend and competitor, Ivan Abramovitch Morozov ); sixteen by Gauguin of the Tahitian period, which were hung in his dining room in the manner of an orthodox iconostasis ; seven by Henri Rousseau ; sixteen by André Derain ; eight by Albert Marquet ; and two by Maxime Dethomas . Shchukin
168-657: The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Dance is a large decorative panel, painted with a companion piece, Music , specifically for the Russian businessman and art collector Sergei Shchukin , with whom Matisse had a long association. Until the October Revolution of 1917, this painting hung together with Music on the staircase of Shchukin's Moscow mansion. The painting shows five dancing figures, painted in
189-688: The Muscovites. After the 1917 Revolution , the government appropriated his collection (decree of the Council of the People's Commissioners, signed Lenin, 8 November 1918) while Shchukin escaped to Paris, where he died in 1936. His mansion in Moscow became the State Museum of New Western Art (Государственный Музей нового западного искусствa, section I), section II being the mansion and collection of
210-658: The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg . Shchukin's art collection has been jointly displayed with the collection of Ivan Morozov . In 2008, the families of Shchukin and Morozov made efforts to compel Russia to provide them with “reasonable compensation,” which become an international legal and political issue. The families refused an offer from the British Royal Academy of £5,000 for each family in exchange for their promise not to make claims on
231-589: The Young Girls" from Igor Stravinsky 's famous 1913 musical work The Rite of Spring . The composition or arrangement of dancing figures is reminiscent of Blake 's watercolour "Oberon, Titania and Puck with fairies dancing" from 1786. Dance is commonly recognized as "a key point of (Matisse's) career and in the development of modern painting". It resides in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. It
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#1732775850316252-681: The collection of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. An earlier version of La Danse (1909) is in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City . The collection also featured fifty choice works by Pablo Picasso , including most of his earliest Cubist works, such as Three Women and major landscapes, but some key pieces of the Blue and Rose periods as well. In 1909, Shchukin opened his home on Sundays for public viewings, introducing French avant-garde painting to
273-632: The largest manufacturing and wholesale companies in Russia. There were several art collectors in the Shchukin family. Sergei's brother Pyotr Shchukin built an important collection of Russian ancient art and artifacts and owned several impressionist masterpieces, while his brother Dimitri Shchukin assembled "Moscow's best collection of Old Masters," which eventually entered the Pushkin Museum . Another brother, Ivan , also collected art and books. Shchukin made his first art purchases following
294-646: The lines in the figures are thicker, giving the image - with its uniform color areas – somewhat the appearance of a woodcut, and (5) the entire image is surrounded by a "frame" consisting of flat yellow, blue, and black color areas. The entire lithograph has the look of a genre that Matisse invented in the late 1930s, namely, the colored-paper cut-out and lithographic versions thereof. Sergei Shchukin Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin ( Russian : Сергей Иванович Щукин ; 6 July [ O.S. 24 June] 1854 – 10 January 1936)
315-579: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La_Danse&oldid=719929544 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Dance (Matisse) La Danse was first exhibited at the Salon d'Automne of 1910 (1 October – 8 November), Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Paris. In March 1909, Matisse painted
336-485: The other famous Russian patron, Ivan Morozov . Eventually, in 1928, the two sections were merged and exhibited in the former Ivan Morozov mansion at Prechistenka, 21. In 1948 the State Museum of New Western Art was closed down by a decree signed by Stalin due to its allegedly bourgeois, cosmopolitan and wrongly oriented artworks. The two collections were randomly divided between the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and
357-753: The paintings while they were on loan to the Royal Academy, which was displaying the two collections in London. Shchukin died on 10 January 1936 in Paris and is buried in Montmartre Cemetery , Avenue des Polonais 1st Division. Irina Antonova , director of the Pushkin Museum, remarked of Shchukin: He started to collect unpopular art, which was snubbed by the Louvre and other museums. It
378-456: Was a Russian businessman who became an art collector, mainly of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin was born on 6 July [ O.S. 24 June] 1854 in Moscow, one of ten children of Ivan Vassilievitch Shchukin , a self-made Moscow merchant, and his wife Ekaterina Shchukina, née Botkin, the daughter of an established family of merchants. I.V. Shchukin and Sons Trading Company became one of
399-568: Was carried out by Mourlot Freres (Paris). This lithographic version is, with margins, 14" × 25" and therefore much smaller than the painted versions. The lithographic version is hardly a "replica" of the Hermitage version, as several differences can be readily observed: (1) the green area in the lithographic version is a lime green. (2) the sky is virtually black (but with some blue near borders and edges of figures), (3) color areas are internally uniform, eschewing any painterly effects, (4)
420-553: Was loaned to H'ART Museum for a period of six weeks from April 1 to May 9, 2010. The French art periodical Verve published a lithographic version of the Hermitage La Danse in its Volume 1, Issue 4, January–March 1939. On page 50 of this issue, it is stated: "Henri Matisse has painted for Verve a replica of his large painting, La Danse . . .. This is reproduced lithographically on the following pages [book-ended by two linocuts of skaters in motion]." The lithography
441-453: Was particularly notable for his long association with Matisse , who decorated his mansion and created one of his iconic paintings, La Danse , specially for Shchukin. La Danse is commonly recognized as "a key point of [Matisse's] career and in the development of modern painting". Henri Matisse created La Danse for Shchukin as part of a two-painting commission, the other important painting being Music , 1910. Both paintings are now in
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