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Anton Otto Fischer - Checkers
Louis Marcoussis - Nature morte au damier 1912
A.Presman wrote:
Juan Gris (Spain, 1887-1927)
Still Life with Playing Cards (Draughts Board and Playing Cards), 1916
Oil on canvas
28 3/4 x 23 5/8"
University purchase, Kende Sale Fund, 1946
Bron: http://galleryofart.wustl.edu/art/imgLarge/34lg.html
Hanco Elenbaas wrote:
"Damier, bouteuille et verre sur une table",
by Juan Gris, gouache,
watercolor and pencil on paper,
9 by 7 1/8 inches, 1916
Marco Veronesi wrote:The Painter's Family
Painting Details:
In this work, painted in Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris in 1911, Matisse depicted his sons Jean and Pierre, deep in a game of draughts, his daughter Marguerite and his wife Amelie. In itself a family portrait set in an interior is a simple and natural idea; it could have been intimate and emotional, but ever true to himself, the artist moved beyond mere intimacy to make the composition monumental and majestic. The structure of this large canvas is unusual. Matisse takes us into a world of whimsical patterns - now childishly naive, now of oriental complexity - which incorporate the draughts board, one of the most important elements in the painting. This patterning might have threatened the compositional unity of the work, but Matisse, as it were challenging the multiplicity of colors and lines he had created, managed to achieve clarity and logic through careful organization of the canvas. The figures play the central role in establishing the unity of the painting. It is they - as always in the artist's works shown with a clear and simple outline - who contain, concentrated within themselves, the most resonant color: the red of the boy's clothes, and black dress and the lemon-yellow book. Matisse has created a vast, tense world, the air vibrant with deep spiritual concentration, which seems almost tangible in the blue-black of the mirror over the fireplace.
Henri Matisse, Pianist and Checker Players, 1924,
National Gallery of Art, Washington,
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Henri Matisse - Danseuse dans la Fauteuil sol en Damier (1942)
Henri Matisse - Harmony in yellow