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Henri Matisse

Dishes and Melon (Assiettes et melon)

between fall 1906 and September 1907
Oil on canvas
65 × 81 cm (25.6 × 31.9 in)

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Matisse made this still life during a stay in Collioure, a medieval town on France's Mediterranean coast. He assembled various products from the region for the painting, including two painted earthenware plates, a carafe, a dark vase, a bowl, a watermelon, and a red shawl. Also depicted is the original plaster of Matisse's own bronze Standing Nude (1908–9; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). Matisse frequently incorporated his own sculpture into his paintings; see, for example, his Studio with Goldfish in Room 19.

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