Minneapolis Institute of Art

Nude, Left Hand near Shoulder

Henri Matisse

Date

1926

Medium

Lithograph

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Matisse explained the centrality of studio models to his artistic practice: “My models, human figures, are never just ‘extras’ in an interior. They are the principal theme of my work. . . . Their forms are not always perfect, but they are always expressive. The emotional interest they inspire in me is not particularly apparent in the representation of their bodies, but often rather by the lines or the special values distributed over the whole canvas or paper and which form its orchestration, its architecture.” France, Europe

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