Past Exhibitions

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November 23, 1952 - October 31, 1959
Twentieth-Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection
Four yellow apples, a lime, and a ceramic pitcher are loosely arranged across a tabletop covered with a carnation-pink cloth patterned with white flowers in this almost square, stylized still life painting. The scene is loosely painted with visible brushstrokes in saturated colors throughout. We look slightly down onto the front corner of the table, where the canary-yellow apples sit in the folds of the tablecloth. The apple closest to us at the corner of the table has a scarlet-red patch on the side facing us. Between the two rightmost apples, the lime is painted in shamrock and fern green. The cloth is bunched up just behind the apples to partially obscure the pitcher sitting near the back of the table. The pitcher is painted with swipes and patches of white, aquamarine blue, and silver gray with gold highlights along its spout. Daubs of pine green, rose pink, and flame red suggest a floral decoration on its side. The wall beyond the table fills the height of the composition, and is scattered with white flowers layered over an aquamarine-blue background. The blossoms seem oversized, each the size of a blown-up balloon. Other leafy forms painted with sapphire blue and plum purple could be more flowers or leaves. Two vertical stripes to the left and right behind the table are made up of strokes and daubs of caramel brown over honey yellow. The artist signed the lower right, “Henri-Matisse.”
November 2 - 30, 1952
French Drawings
October 9 - 19, 1952
American Antiques
October 5 - 7, 1952
Demonstration of Techniques
August 10 - September 28, 1952
American Portraits from the National Gallery of Art
June 3 - October 26, 1952
French Eighteenth-Century Aquatints
May 18 - August 3, 1952
Lithographs by Toulouse-Lautrec

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