Window at Tangier

Window at Tangier

Artist	Henri Matisse
Year	1912
Type	Oil on canvas
Location	Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Window at Tangier by Henri Matisse (1912 - The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow).

An example of Matisse's paintings after the colorful revolution of his Fauvism period. After several trips outside of France, Matisse became interested in the Islamic art of North Africa. He visited Morocco in 1912 and 1913. Window in Tangier, with its bold color and flat perspective reflects a Moroccan influence in Matisse's work.

This was among several works acquired directly from Matisse in Paris by the Russian collector Ivan Morozov. After the Russian Revolution the Morozov collection was confiscated and eventually by 1948 the collection was donated to the public along with the Sergei Shchukin collection, at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow and the Hermitage in St Petersburg.