Matisse: The Red Studio

"Created in 1911, Henri Matisse''s The Red Studio would go on to become one of the most influential works in the history of modern art. The painting, which has hung in MoMA''s galleries since 1949, depicts the artist''s studio in the Parisian suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, filled with his artworks, furniture, and decorative objects. Matisse''s radical decision to blanket most of the work''s surface in red has fascinated generations of scholars and artists, yet much remained to be discovered...