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Grace Hartigan

Homage to Matisse, 1955

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Description

Maker

Title

Homage to Matisse

Year

1955

Medium

Oil on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Supports

Dimensions

183.5 x 122.6 cm (72 1/4 x 48 1/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed LL:Homage to Matisse, November 1955; LR:Hartigan

Type

Credit

Anonymous gift

Object Number

56.120

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Modern and Contemporary Galleries

In this exuberantly constructed still-life painting, thick, slashing brushstrokes define a tabletop laden with lemons, a lute, and a profusion of platters. Hartigan appropriated the traditional still-life motif and reinvigorated it as an example of mid-20th-century abstraction.

Hartigan’s composition was inspired by Henri Matisse’s Still Life after Jan Davidsz. de Heem’s “La Desserte” (1915), a painting exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in 1951. Matisse had studied de Heem’s lavish and meticulously drawn dessert table, freely reconstructing that 17th-century Dutch painting.

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