Portrait of Madame Matisse

Painted by Henri Matisse in 1905 at the height of his Fauvist breakthrough, 'Portrait of Madame Matisse (The Green Stripe)' places a vivid green line down the centre of his wife Amélie's face — from forehead to chin — as a pure colour marker of the meeting of light and shadow. The Fauve palette of pink, red, orange, and acid green dismantles traditional portraiture at a single stroke. Held by Copenhagen's Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK) since 1916, it is the most important Fauve painting in Scandinavia and a cornerstone of the Nordic reception of the School of Paris.

Exhibition Venue

Statens Museum for Kunst

Copenhagen Municipality, Denmark