Matisse in Nice

Artist Red Grooms (American, born 1937)

Date1992

MediumColor lithograph

DimensionsUnframed: 22 1/4 x 29 7/8 inches (56.52 x 75.87 cm)
Framed: 31 1/16 x 41 3/16 inches (78.89 x 104.62 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the Print Society and print deaccession funds in honor of the 60th Anniversary of the Museum

Object numberF93-1

Signedbottom, in pencil: "25/45 Red Grooms 92"

Edition/State/Proof25/45

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DescriptionStudio interior with suited, bearded, bespectacled man, bearing palette, seated in red-flowered green upholstered arm chair, painting with brush in right hand on canvas on easel, center. Nude woman, left, seated on pillowed, striped divan, unframed painting of odalisque on wall behind her, white-tiled dado, blue above with brown arabesque. Open balcony window, rear, giving on sea, boat, palm tree. Fish bowl below on stand. Low, brown tabouret with book, letter, and envelope stands on orange-tiled floor between painter and subject.Gallery Label

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Red Grooms parodies Matisse's painting style in Matisse in Nice and pokes fun at the difference between what an artist sees and what he or she chooses to create. The scene that Matisse so carefully studies is not what he paints. Grooms knows that seeing is an act of memory and desire. People see not only what is in front of them but also that which they long for. In the background of this print, the goldfish stare at each other much as Matisse stares at his model.

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