Notre-Dame, une fin d'après-midi

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Notre-Dame, une fin d'après-midi ("A Glimpse of Notre-Dame in the Late Afternoon") is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1902.

Its somber coloration is typical of Matisse's works executed between the end of 1901 and the end of 1903, a period of personal difficulties for the artist. His work was bringing in little money, and in 1902 a major financial scandal, the Humbert Affair, ensnared the family of Matisse's wife, Amélie. Matisse's mother-in-law, who was the Humbert family's housekeeper, became a scapegoat in the scandal, along with her husband, and Matisse was forced to spend much of the next year dealing with lawyers and journalists.[1] With his wife's income from a dress shop providing the support for his family, Matisse's struggle to master volume in painting as well as in sculpture resulted in the present work, and other paintings such as Carmelina (1903, in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).[2]

The medium is oil on paper mounted on canvas and it measures 72.5 x 54.5 cm (28 1/2 x 21 1/2 in). The painting is in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Spurling, p. 33
  2. ^ UCLA Art Council, 1966, p. 10

[edit] References

  • Spurling, Hilary, 2005, "Matisse's Pajamas", The New York Review of Books, August 11, 2005, pp. 33–36
  • UCLA Art Council, Leymarie, J., Read, H. E., & Lieberman, W. S. (1966). Henri Matisse retrospective 1966. Los Angeles: UCLA Art Gallery. OCLC 83777407
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