François Bouchon / Le Figaro
REVIEW – The Louis Vuitton Foundation invites the public to visit the revered painter of modern art. And gives, through the confrontation between work and subjects, a lesson in painting.
Matisse in 1911, it is the Matisse that Sergei Chtchoukine (1854-1936) loves, this legendary collector for whom he had created Dance in 1909. The Louis Vuitton Foundation brought together, in Paris in 2016-2017, then in Moscow at the Pushkin Museum in 2019, the two parts of its visionary collection of French art from the beginning of the 20th century.e century, separated by the Revolution and Stalinism. A past chapter regarding relations between France and Russia.
Matisse in 1911 is The Red Workshop, his absolute masterpiece whose apparent simplicity, the intimate view taken by the painter on his workshop in Issy-les-Moulineaux and on the small people of his creations, disconcerted his time. Starting with its sponsor, Sergei Shchukin himself, his first patron, who did not understand the painting’s radical beauty, despite his avant-garde eye, preferred The pink workshop and refused The Red Workshop brought by Matisse to Moscow for the development of the Trubetskoy Palace, leaving him distraught…
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