Game of Bowls

Game of Bowls

Artist	Henri Matisse
Year	1908
Type	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	115 cm × 147 cm (45 in × 58 in)
Location	Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

Game of Bowls is a 1908 painting by the French artist Henri Matisse. The painting shows three young men, probably Matisse's sons and nephew, playing a game of Boules. Matisse sees the game as a manifestation of man's creativity, and an instrument to use in understanding the codes of life. The painting is part of Matisse's series on man's "Golden Age" and was part of Sergei Shchukin's collection before the October Revolution of 1917. It is now in the collection of The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.^[1]

References

↑ State Hermitage Museum - Game of Bowls

Henri Matisse (List of works)

Works	Le Mur Rose (Landscape, the Pink Wall) (1898) Notre-Dame, une fin d'après-midi (A Glimpse of Notre-Dame in the Late Afternoon) (1902) Luxe, Calme et Volupté (Luxury, Calm and Pleasure) (1904) La Raie Verte (The Green Line) (1905) The Open Window (1905) Woman with a Hat (1905) Les toits de Collioure (1905) Landscape at Collioure (1905) Le bonheur de vivre (1906) The Young Sailor II (1906) Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt (1906) Madras Rouge (1907) Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra) (1907) The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room) (1908) Game of Bowls (1908) Bathers with a Turtle (1908) Dance (1910) Music (1910) Still Life with Geraniums (1910) L'Atelier Rouge (1911) The Conversation (1908–1912) Zorah on the Terrace (1912) Window at Tangier (1912) Le Rifain assis (1912) View of Notre-Dame (1914) Woman on a High Stool (1914) Le rideau jaune (The Yellow Curtain) (1915) The Window (1916) The Painter and His Model (1917) Interior A Nice (1920) Odalisque with Raised Arms (1923) Yellow Odalisque (1926) The Dance II (mural) (1932) Robe violette et Anémones (1937) Woman in a Purple Coat (1937) La Blouse Roumaine (1940) Annelies, White Tulips and Anemones (1944) L'Asie (1946) Le Lanceur De Couteaux (1947) Deux fillettes, fond jaune et rouge (1947) The Plum Blossoms (1948) Beasts of the Sea (1950) The Sorrows of the King (1952) Black Leaf on Green Background (1952) La Négresse (1952) Blue Nude II (1952) The Snail (1953) Le Bateau (1953) Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence (Chapel of the Rosary) Jazz (book)

Shows	Salon d'Automne

Movement	Fauvism

Teachers	William-Adolphe Bouguereau Gustave Moreau John Peter Russell

Collectors	Sergei Shchukin Gertrude Stein Leo Stein Albert C. Barnes Cone sisters

Family and friends	Amélie Matisse Pierre Matisse Paul Matisse Marguerite Matisse Pablo Picasso

Related	An Essay on Matisse Matisse Museum (Le Cateau) Musée Matisse (Nice)

Wikimedia	Matisse at Wiktionary Matisse at Wikibooks Matisse at Wikiquote Matisse at Wikisource Matisse at Commons Matisse at Wikinews

Models	Greta Moll Henriette Darricarrère Lydia Delectorskaya

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