The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room)

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The Dessert: Harmony in Red by Henri Matisse, 1908.

The Dessert: Harmony in Red is a painting by French artist Henri Matisse, from 1908.^[1]

Originally it was called Harmony in Blue. It was bought by a collector, but Matisse was not satisfied with the overall blue, which did not provide sufficient contrast with the green seen through the window in the painting. He worked on it further and covered the blue with red, which was how it was delivered eventually to the purchaser.

It is in the collection of the Hermitage Museum, but currently (as of February 2008) on display in the Royal Academy, London.

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v • d • e Henri Matisse Paintings Woman Reading (1894)  · Notre-Dame, une fin d'après-midi (1902)  · The green line (1905)  · The Open Window (1905)  · Woman with a Hat (1905)  · Les toits de Collioure (1905)  · Landscape at Collioure (1905)  · Le bonheur de vivre (1906)  · The Young Sailor II (1906)  · Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt (1906)  · Madras Rouge (1907)  · Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra) (1907)  · The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room) (1908)  · Bathers with a Turtle (1908)  · La Danse (1909)  · Still Life with Geraniums (1910)  · L'Atelier Rouge (1911)  · The Conversation (1908–1912)  · Zorah on the Terrace (1912)  · Le Rifain assis (1912)  · Le rideau jaune (the yellow curtain) (1915)  · The Window (1916)  · The Painter and His Model (1917)  · Interior A Nice (1920)  · Odalisque with Raised Arms (1923)  · Yellow Odalisque (1926)  · The Dance II (1932)  · Robe violette et Anémones (1937)  · Woman in a Purple Coat (1937)  · La Blouse Roumaine (1940)  · Le Lanceur De Couteaux (1943)  · Annelies, White Tulips and Anemones (1944)  · L'Asie (1946)  · Deux fillettes, fond jaune et rouge (1947)  · The Plum Blossoms (1948)  · Beasts of the Sea (1950)  · The Sorrows of the King (1952)  · Black Leaf on Green Background (1952)  · La Négresse (1952)  · Blue Nudes (1952)  · The Snail (1953)  · Le Bateau (1954) Other works Chapelle du Saint-Marie du Rosaire  • Jazz (book) Shows Salon d'Automne Movement Fauvism Teachers William-Adolphe Bouguereau  • Gustave Moreau  • John Peter Russell Collectors Sergei Shchukin  • Gertrude Stein  • Leo Stein  • Albert C. Barnes Family Pierre Matisse  • Paul Matisse Wikimedia  Matisse at Wiktionary  •  Matisse at Wikibooks  •  Matisse at Wikiquote  •  Matisse at Wikisource  •  Matisse at Commons  •  Matisse at Wikinews

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It is orginaly called harmony in the red room