Minneapolis Institute of Art

Costumed Woman with a Trifoliate Cross

Henri Matisse

Date

1929

Medium

Lithograph

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Concurrent with the numerous shaded lithographs from the 1920s, Matisse also executed many lithographs linear in character, such as this example. The exuberant ornamentation in this print does not appear in the décor but on the model’s Persian robe. Matisse creates an evident visual opposition between the profusion of curved lines that describes the robe and the sparse network of straight lines across the background. France, Europe

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