Why it matters
Matisse painted his wife Amélie with a bold green stripe down the middle of her face. The unnatural, experimental colour made it a key work of Fauvism.
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1905.
- That summer Matisse and André Derain developed Fauvism in Collioure.
- Matisse said: 'When I apply green, that does not mean grass.'
Based on the Wikipedia article The Green Stripe (CC BY-SA 4.0).
