Woman with a Hat

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Woman with a Hat is a 1905 Fauvist painting by Henri Matisse, renowned for its bold, non-naturalistic colors and expressive brushwork that helped define the Fauvist movement.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Fauvist painting
painting
artForm oil-on-canvas painting
artHistoricalPeriod Modern art
artStyle Fauvism
cataloguedAs Matisse Fauvist work
collection San Francisco Museum of Modern Art collection
colorCharacteristic bold colors
non-naturalistic colors
countryOfOrigin France
createdInCity Paris
creator Henri Matisse
creatorNationality French
depicts Amélie Matisse
woman
displayedIn United States of America
surface form: United States
exhibitedAt Salon d'Automne
exhibitionStartDate 1905
genre portrait painting
hasArtisticFeature loosely defined forms
strong contrasts of color
visible brushstrokes
hasArtisticInnovation emphasis on painterly qualities over realistic representation
use of color independent of natural appearance
hasCulturalContext Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century
hasInfluenceOn perception of color in modern painting
hasTitle Woman with a Hat self-link
inception 1905
influenced early 20th-century modern art
languageOfTitle French
location Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
surface form: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
materialUsed oil paint
movement Fauvism
movementRole key work in the emergence of Fauvism
notableFor controversial reception at the 1905 Salon d'Automne
departure from academic portraiture conventions
partOf Henri Matisse's early Fauvist period
portrays fashionable woman
hat
upper body
significance early masterpiece of Fauvism
helped define the Fauvist movement
subjectRelationToArtist artist's wife
support canvas
technique expressive brushwork
titleInFrench La femme au chapeau

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Marguerite Matisse depictedIn Woman with a Hat
this entity surface form: Woman with a Hat (as a possible model)
Woman with a Hat hasTitle Woman with a Hat self-link
Henri Matisse notableWork Woman with a Hat
Fauvism notableWorkExample Woman with a Hat
this entity surface form: “Woman with a Hat” by Henri Matisse
The Open Window relatedWorkByCreator Woman with a Hat