Why it matters
In this wall-size painting, figures make music, expressing man's attainment of completeness through creativity. Commissioned by Sergei Shchukin, it hung alongside Dance on the staircase of his Moscow mansion.
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1910 without preparatory sketches.
- It was poorly received at the 1910 Salon d'Automne.
- In the Soviet era red paint was added to censor one of the figures; it has since been removed.
Based on the Wikipedia article Music (Matisse) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
