"Young Sailor II" (1906) is reproduced from 'Matisse: The Red Studio,' the new release from @themuseumofmodernart collecting all of the artworks and objects pictured in Matisse's famous 1911 painting In 'The Red Studio,' "Young Sailor (II)" "is positioned high above the textile, near the upper right corner of the grandfather clock," @ann.temkin and @dorthe.aagesen write. "Carrying the circulatory flow of ‘The Red Studio’ right-ward, the sailor faces the opposite direction of the figure in ‘Nude with White Scarf.’ His pose, with left knee raised and left arm bent, loosely mirrors hers. The image represents a Fauvist painting Matisse made in Collioure, the artist’s second and highly stylized version of a portrait of a local boy in sailor dress. Deftly abbreviating that composition, Matisse has aligned the portrait’s tone more closely with that of its neighbors in ‘The Red Studio’ than with that of the painting it replicates. The monochrome pink background, now brighter, consumes proportionately more of the composition; as the sailor’s body shrinks and shifts to become more rightward facing, it loses the muscular frontality of the original. The young man’s piercing gaze is gone, his face having dissolved into a simple patch of yellow surrounded by a formless zone of unpainted canvas. ‘Young Sailor (II)’ is the only painting in ‘The Red Studio’ whose scale is notably adjusted, appearing to be smaller than it is in actuality. Like that of ‘Nude with White Scarf,’ its intensity has been suppressed in favor of the harmony of the composition to which it now belongs.” Read more via linkinbio. #matisse #matisseredstudio #theredstudio https://www.instagram.com/p/CdrLs1_J7e4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=