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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

New York's MoMA Exhibits Matisse's Paintings within a Painting

People look at Henri Matisse's "The Red Studio" (1911) during a press preview on April 27, 2022, at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. TIMOTHY A. CLARY AFP

When Henri Matisse painted "The Red Studio" in 1911 he portrayed 11 of his artworks on a single canvas. An exhibition in New York is about to display all the surviving works together for the first time.

In "The Red Studio," the French artist reproduced almost a dozen miniature versions of his paintings and sculptures as a way to depict his workshop in the Paris suburbs -- not to mention play with perspective, color, time and space.

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