name	Masterpieces
subject	Carmelina, 1903
message	If The Attic Studio, 1903, provides a startling glimpse into the future of Matisse's art during what seems to have been its darkest moment, then Carmelina is the undoubted though thoroughly conventional masterpiece of this somber period, which intervenes between his Proto-Fauve work of about 1897-1900 and his second excursion into Neo-Impressionism in 1904-5. A tightly cemented composition in which the parts mesh like perfectly functioning gears, it sums up the efforts of nineteenth-century realism. Its execution may well have helped Matisse to abandon certain insecurities concerning the styles of the past, which are revealed in his early works after moments of remarkable boldness. Compositionally, it makes an interesting comparison with the series of figure studies, both male and female, that were inaugurated in 1900, and of which Male Model is a remarkable example https://www.henrimatisse.org/carmelina.jsp
date	Thursday August 6, 2020

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