september 20, 2021 - National gallery of Denmark

New exhibition: Henri Matisse and 'The Red Studio' at SMK (The National Gallery of Denmark) in 2022

Next autumn, SMK – The #nationalgalleryofdenmark – will present a new exhibition on #henrimatisse. Born out of a collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, the show brings together the artworks depicted in the painting The Red Studio for the first time in over 100 years.

In 1911, the French artist #henrimatisse (1869–1954) painted The Red Studio. Matisse is considered one of the great masters of twentieth-century art, and the painting is regarded as a key painting in Matisse's oeuvre and a foundational work in the history of modern art. Owned by The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the picture is one of the museum's most important works and a favourite with artists and audiences alike.

The large canvas depicts Matisse's studio in the Parisian suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux filled with his own paintings, sculptures, furniture and decorative objects. The most remarkable feature of The Red Studio is Matisse's decision to saturate the painting's surface with a monochrome red covering walls, floor and furniture of the interior – a radical move whose significance is still discussed today.

In the autumn of 2022, the painting will come to #Copenhagen as part of an exhibition co-organised with #MoMA. The exhibition will sensationally reunite The Red Studio with the artworks reproduced in it for the first time since they left the artist's studio more than a hundred years ago.

The ambitious and focused exhibition will offer a unique opportunity to experience The Red Studio in Denmark. Here visitors can scrutinise Matisse's choice of subject matter and gain rare insight into his working methods at a crucial point in his career.

"A few years ago, a long-held dream came one step closer to coming true when our colleagues from #MoMA asked us if we wanted to collaborate on an exhibition centred on what may be Matisse's most important painting The Red Studio, which only very rarely leaves the museum in New York. This exhibition gives our audience a unique opportunity to see key works from SMK's large Matisse collection presented around one of the absolute masterpieces of European modernism. It's going to be huge!" says Mikkel Bogh, director of SMK.

Three masterpieces from SMK
The core of the exhibition will feature The Red Studio alongside the surviving six paintings and four sculptures depicted in it. Three of these paintings belong to SMK and are highlights of the museum's collection: Le Luxe II (1907–08), Nude with a White Scarf (1909) and Nymph and Faun (c. 1911). The latter was acquired by the museum in 2018.

All the works shown in The Red Studio date from the period 1898 to 1911, and the location of several of the objects have only recently been discovered in connection with this project.

The exhibition will also feature a range of other Matisse paintings and drawings closely associated with The Red Studio as well as a rich selection of photos, letters and documents that reveal new information about the painting's subject and history.

The exhibition Henri Matisse – The Red Studio will be on display at #MoMA from 1 May to 11 September 2022 and at SMK from 14 October 2022 to 26 February 2023.

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- Documents (1)

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