Matisse

The Red Studio

Ann Temkin, Dorthe Aagesen

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Museum of Modern Art NY
23 September 2022

Art & Architecture; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections

In 2022, The Museum of Modern Art and the Statens Museum for Kunst will present an ambitious dossier exhibition focusing on Henri Matisse's Red Studio from 1911. The large painting depicts the artist's work environment in Issy-les-Moulineaux, crowded with his own canvases, sculptures, furniture and decorative objects. Matisse's radical decision to saturate the work's surface with red has continued to fascinate generations of scholars and artists. Yet much remains to be explored in terms of the painting's genesis and history. This show presents a unique opportunity to assess Matisse's painting anew. The first gallery of the exhibition will reunite The Red Studio - in MoMA's collection since 1949 - with the works depicted in it (three of them belong to the Statens Museum for Kunst). Ranging from 1898 to 1911, they span the artist's career up to that date and combine both familiar and lesser-known pieces. The second gallery of the exhibition will retrace the painting's complex history, from the artist's studio in the Parisian suburb to its subsequent international travels and reception. We will explore, for example, how The Red Studio was originally conceived for the Muscovite collector Sergei Shchukin; how it was later included in the famous 1913 Armory Show; how it was on display for fifteen years on the walls of a London social club; and its eventual acquisition by MoMA. A rich selection of archival materials such as photographs, catalogues, letters, and press clippings will join artworks by Matisse and others on display.

By: Ann Temkin, Dorthe Aagesen
Imprint: Museum of Modern Art NY
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 270mm, Width: 230mm,
Weight: 1.320kg
ISBN: 9781633451322
ISBN 10: 1633451321
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 23 September 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

The publication will include a suite of four chapters alternately written by Ann Temkin and Dorthe Aagesen, as well as an Appendix focusing on the eleven individual works represented in The Red Studio. Introduction: Temkin and Aagesen Ch 1: The Studio: Issy-les-Moulineaux Ch 2: The Patron: Sergei Shchukin Ch 3: The Painting: The Red Studio Ch 4: The Biography of the Painting Coda

Ann Temkin is The Marie-Josee and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA Dorthe Aagesen is Chief Curator and Senior Researcher at Statens Museums for Kunst

Reviews for Matisse: The Red Studio

The optical-sensuous equivalent of a five-alarm fire.--Sebastian Smee Washington Post The Red Studio has the effect of making Matisse's world less abstract...Allows us to enter not only the artist's studio but also the life and mind of the artist--Daniel Ross Goodman Washington Examiner Aesthetic bliss saturates--radically, to a degree still apt to startle when you pause to reflect on it--the means, ends, and very soul of a style that was so far ahead of its time that its full influence took decades to kick in.--Peter Schjeldahl New Yorker A meticulous examination of the inner and outer life of a single painting.--Roberta Smith New York Times: Arts We see how, in an incredibly condensed period of time, an artist can traverse universes and touch down in places unexpected. We witness an artist not only inventing and reinventing himself but reinventing art history as he does so. In these little spaces, you can almost hear these mighty engines roar.--Jerry Saltz New York Magazine: Vulture