ENGLISH WORLD - Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition, 1912, and The Armory Show, 1913 - Letter from Sergei Shchukin to Henri Matisse, February 1/14, 1912 - ATELIER ROUGE _ FONDATION LOUIS VUITTON
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Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition, 1912, and The Armory Show, 1913
Shchukin's lack of interest in the The Red Studio affected the artist, who chose not to exhibit the work in France immediately after its completion. The Red Studio debuted at London's Grafton Galleries in the fall of 1912, in the Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition, organized by Roger Fry, a writer and artist who played a pivotal role in introducing modern art to Britain. Public response to the exhibition, and to Matisse's work in particular, was mostly hostile.
The Red Studio then traveled to the United States, where it was included in the Armory Show in New York, Chicago, and Boston. Other paintings by Matisse from the Grafton Galleries exhibition, including Le Luxe (II) (1906), Young Sailor (II) (1907-1908), and Goldfish and Sculpture (1912, presented in this room), were also shown. The Armory Show offered the American public a broad overview of modern art but was, for the most part, ridiculed.
Shchukin's lack of interest in the The Red Studio affected the artist, who chose not to exhibit the work in France immediately after its completion. The Red Studio debuted at London's Grafton Galleries in the fall of 1912, in the Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition, organized by Roger Fry, a writer and artist who played a pivotal role in introducing modern art to Britain. Public response to the exhibition, and to Matisse's work in particular, was mostly hostile.
The Red Studio then traveled to the United States, where it was included in the Armory Show in New York, Chicago, and Boston. Other paintings by Matisse from the Grafton Galleries exhibition, including Le Luxe (II) (1906), Young Sailor (II) (1907-1908), and Goldfish and Sculpture (1912, presented in this room), were also shown. The Armory Show offered the American public a broad overview of modern art but was, for the most part, ridiculed.
Letter from Sergei Shchukin to Henri Matisse, February 1/14, 1912
Archives Henri Matisse
On February 14, Shchukin wrote back to Matisse: "Yesterday I received your letter from Tangier from February 1, and also the watercolor for the red painting. I'm sure it must be very interesting, but I now prefer your paintings with figures." With that, the matter was closed;
Shchukin had rejected The Red Studio. The collector continued his letter by praising The Painter's Family, a painting that had elicited great admiration in Moscow and was considered the most successful Matisse in Shchukin's collection. When Shchukin visited the artist in Issy in July 1912, he might well have encountered The Red Studio.
Yet even if he did, his mind was not changed. At any rate, Shchukin's interest in Matisse's work was undiminished: in July 1912, he bought four recently completed paintings, and a fifth followed the next month.
Archives Henri Matisse
On February 14, Shchukin wrote back to Matisse: "Yesterday I received your letter from Tangier from February 1, and also the watercolor for the red painting. I'm sure it must be very interesting, but I now prefer your paintings with figures." With that, the matter was closed;
Shchukin had rejected The Red Studio. The collector continued his letter by praising The Painter's Family, a painting that had elicited great admiration in Moscow and was considered the most successful Matisse in Shchukin's collection. When Shchukin visited the artist in Issy in July 1912, he might well have encountered The Red Studio.
Yet even if he did, his mind was not changed. At any rate, Shchukin's interest in Matisse's work was undiminished: in July 1912, he bought four recently completed paintings, and a fifth followed the next month.
Matisse painted The Red Studio as part of a commission from the Russian textile magnate Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin (1854-1936). Shchukin met
Matisse in 1906 and would become his most dedicated patron. The first of the paintings commissioned specifically for his Moscow residence was Harmony in Red (1908), followed by Dance (II) (1909-1910) and Music (1910).
In January 1911, Shchukin requested a group of three new panel paintings (1.8 x 2.2 m), leaving the choice of subject to the artist. The paintings were intended to decorate a room of modest proportions. Matisse's first response, in spring 1911, was The Pink Studio. In early 1912, two months after Matisse had paid a visit to Shchukin in Moscow, he wrote a letter to the collector informing him of the newly created The Red Studio and enclosed a watercolor representing it. Not convinced, the collector politely refused. For Shchukin, a commission did not represent a commitment. He continued to buy many more paintings from Matisse, but definitively abandoned the idea of the trio of paintings.
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