Fauvism’s saturated colours and candid style Today, Dance by Matisse is hung with its partner Music at the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. Dance was painted at the height of the Fauvism aesthetic and embodies the emancipation from Western art’s traditional conventions of representation. Characteriz ed by its simplicity and energy, this ecstatic bacchanalia left a lasting mark on 20th-century art. ![]() The artwork was commissioned with its matching painting Music by the influential Russian collector Sergei Shchukin in 1909 for decorating his mansion. Amongst Henri Matisse’s most famous works, Dance is an ode to life, joy, physical abandonment, and has become an emblem of modern art.
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