Provenance

Dr. Jacques Soubies

French

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A person sits at the side of a dappled dirt path that curls along the edge of a green hill and through towering trees in this loosely painted horizontal landscape. The person is painted with a few strokes of peach to represent a light-skinned person wearing a white shift and blue hat. The low hill slopes down to the right. Trees are loosely painted there in the ravine and along the far side of the path. The sky is pale periwinkle blue. The artist signed the lower left corner, “Henri-Matisse.”
Henri Matisse, Les Gorges du Loup, 1920/1925, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.166

Les Gorges du Loup

Henri Matisse · 1920/1925 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.166

Shown from the waist up, pale-skinned young man wearing a bowler hat looks at us from the corners of his eyes in this vertical portrait painting. His body is angled to our right, and he cuts his dark eyes back to look at us, his lips pursed. He has a wide face, round cheeks, and a narrow chin. His white lapels are flipped up, and he wears a buttoned blue jacket. The black bowler hat seems a little too small for his head. The man and setting are painted with areas of mottled, streaked color. For instance, his peachy face is shaded with visible strokes of slate blue. His white collar is a blend of ice blue and frosty green, and his jacket is built up with daubs and strokes of marine blue, moss green, and gray. The white of the canvas underneath shows through in some areas, especially in the jacket. The wrist of one hand resting in the man’s lap is visible, and the back rail of the wooden chair in which he sits peeks out past the shoulder to our left. The wall behind him is painted loosely with the suggestion of a diamond pattern in laurel and olive green, parchment brown, rust orange, and muted blue. A rail or frame running close and parallel to the right edge of the canvas is patterned with elongated red teardrop shapes outlined by white, against a celestial-blue background.
Paul Cezanne, The Artist's Son, Paul, 1886-1887, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.100

The Artist's Son, Paul

Paul Cezanne · 1886-1887 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.100

Bibliography

1986

  • Hahnloser-Ingold, Margrit. "Collecting Matisses of the 1920s in the 1920s," in Matisse: The Early Years in Nice. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1986: 244-245.