The Moroccans

Henri Matisse · Issy-les-Moulineaux, late 1915 and fall 1916

This is The Moroccans — a painting by Matisse, from Issy-les-Moulineaux, late nineteen fifteen and fall nineteen sixteen. Oil on canvas — pigment ground into a slow-drying oil, which is what lets a painter go back into wet paint for days.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 71 3/8" x 9' 2" (181.3 x 279.4 cm) · Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Marx

Hanging beside it in Gallery 506: Periwinkles / Moroccan Garden, The Piano Lesson

More by Henri Matisse here: The Back (I), The Back (II), The Back (III), The Back (IV), Tiari, Dance (I)