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"Matisse is the great twentieth century poet of color. Playing on curved lines, loft outlines movement, and bright colors, in LA DANSE he succeeds in creating an abstraction of reality in a painting that is nonetheless representational. Commissioned by the Russian collector Shchukin in 1910, Matisse’s LA DANSE was conceived for the snowy city of Moscow: in the midst of the long white streets, with the dazzling light reflected off the snow, this vision emerges of bright, almost feverish color.”
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