The Green Dress (La Robe verte)

Discussion

FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

When Matisse painted The Green Dress , he had recently returned to the city of Nice and taken a new model, Antoinette Arnaud. Here we see Arnaud from above, looking directly at us from a casual seated position; she rests one foot on a chaise longue, where she has discarded her black stockings, and the other on a Moroccan footstool. The footstool, Arnaud's turban, and her billowing green gandoura are "oriental" elements that hint at the theme of the odalisque, which Matisse pursued more fully from 1920.

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