La Raie verte

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La Raie verte is a famous 1905 Fauvist portrait by Henri Matisse depicting his wife with a bold green stripe dividing her face, emblematic of his radical use of color.

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La Raie Verte 1
La Raie verte canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Fauvist painting
painting
portrait painting
alternativeName Portrait of Madame Matisse (The Green Line)
surface form: Portrait of Madame Matisse

The Green Stripe
artForm oil painting
artHistoricalSignificance emblematic example of Fauvist color theory
key work in early 20th-century modernism
artisticInnovation deliberate distortion of natural skin tones
use of color to define form instead of traditional shading
associatedEvent 1905 Salon d’Automne exhibition in Paris
surface form: 1905 Salon d'Automne Fauves exhibition
background vividly colored background
century 20th century
colorUsage complementary color contrasts
expressive rather than naturalistic
countryOfOrigin France
creationLocation France
creativePeriod early career of Henri Matisse
creator Henri Matisse
creatorNationality French
creatorRole painter
culturalStatus iconic work of Fauvism
depiction head and shoulders of a seated woman
depictionDetail face modeled with patches of contrasting color
green stripe runs down the center of the face
depictionType bust-length portrait
depicts Amélie Matisse
Henri Matisse's wife
era Modern art
exhibitedAt Salon d'Automne (1905)
genre portrait
hasInfluenced development of expressive color in modern painting
hasSubjectRelation spouse of the artist
inception 1905
languageOfTitle French
movement Fauvism
notableFeature bold green stripe dividing the face
radical use of non-naturalistic color
simplified forms
strong color contrasts
originalTitleLanguage French
pictorialFocus face divided by a vertical green band
portrays Amélie Matisse
surface form: Amélie Noellie Parayre Matisse
style Fauvist
subjectGender female
yearExhibited 1905

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The Green Line title La Raie verte
this entity surface form: La Raie Verte