The Piano Lesson

Henri Matisse · Issy-les-Moulineaux, late summer 1916

Here we have The Piano Lesson — a painting by Matisse, late summer nineteen sixteen. The piece is oil on canvas, about 2.5 by 2.1 meters. You can pick out the interior room.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 8' 1/2" x 6' 11 3/4" (245.1 x 212.7 cm) · Credit Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 506: The Moroccans, Still Life with Aubergines

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Untitled (International Surrealist Exhibition, Paris), Untitled, Saturday Night in a New England Kitchen, Measurement Room, The Heiress, TV-Dé-coll/age, no. 1

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