Two Young Girls in a Red and Yellow Interior (Deux fillettes, fond jaune et rouge)

Between May-June 1947

Oil on canvas

61 × 49.8 cm (24 × 19.6 in)

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In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.

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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

This work is currently on loan to the exhibition "Henri Matisse 1941-1954" at The Grand Palais, Paris, March 24 - July 26, 2026. Created forty-one years after his famous Bonheur de vivre , this painting attests to the continued importance of color in Matisse's oeuvre. As in the nearby Two Young Girls in a Coral Interior, Blue Garden (BF2092), Matisse relies on the quantity and shape of the colored surface to determine the contours of the objects represented. This was the last painting by Matisse to enter Barnes's collection.

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