Red Rug (Le tapis rouge)

Discussion

FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

Red Rug is characteristic of the period in which Matisse returned to a realistic representation of space without renouncing what Dr. Barnes, in his analysis of the picture, called a "total plastic integration." In Red Rug, the figure, placed at the center of the composition, is surrounded by objects that seem to turn around her in an endless circle.

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