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Henri Matisse

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 · as of July 2026

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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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