About this artwork
Matisse recalls his time in Tahiti with the lagoon plates. He describes them as “simply the shimmering colors of the tropics, with animal or undulating forms, evocations of calm waters.”
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Henri Matisse
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Title
- Lagoon, from Jazz
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Copyrighted 1947
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Medium
- Color pochoir with gouache on ivory wove paper
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Dimensions
- Sheet, folded: 42.3 × 32.8 cm (16 11/16 × 12 15/16 in.); Sheet, unfolded: 42.3 × 65.4 cm (16 11/16 × 25 3/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Simeon B. Williams Fund
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Reference Number
- 1948.80.20