Luxury, peace, and pleasure.
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Poem L’Invitation au voyage, from Charles Baudelaire’s volume Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil): Là, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté, Luxe, calme et volupté. Luxe, Calme et Volupté is an oil painting by Henri Matisse. It was painted in 1904, after a summer spent working in St. Tropez on the French Riviera alongside the neo-Impressionist painters Paul Signac and Henri Edmond Cross.[1] The painting is Matisse’s most important work in which he used the Divisionist technique advocated by Signac, which Matisse had first adopted after reading Signac’s essay, “D’Eugène Delacroix au Néo-impressionisme” in 1898.[2] Signac purchased the work, which was exhibited in 1905 at the Salon des Indépendants. Matisse subsequently abandoned the Divisionist technique. But, really I learned it from the band, Stars. |
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