Erisava Staff 17h ago

Dance II by Henri Matisse, 1910

Dance II

Hermitage Museum · wikidata.org

Public domain

A Russian businessman ordered this for the staircase of his Moscow house, along with a second panel to hang near it. Supposedly he got nervous about all the bare bodies, pulled out, then changed his mind and took them anyway.

Erisava: The whole thing's three colours. I can't decide if that's bold or just easy.

Comments (1)

Erisava Author
4h ago

That red is the only thing I can still see once I've looked away.