''Woman In A Purple Coat'' or ''The Purple Coat'' is a
painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...
by
Henri Matisse
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a drawing, draughtsman, printmaking, printmaker, and sculptur ...
from 1937. It depicts Matisse's assistant
Lydia Delectorskaya. This painting is an example of Henri Matisse's mature decorative style. Matisse depicts his model and companion of many years, Lydia Delectorskaya, in an exotic
Moroccan clothing, surrounded by a complex of abstract design and exotic color.
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/ref> This is an example of one of the final groups of oil paintings in Matisse's career, in 1950 he stopped painting oil paintings
Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on wood panel or canvas for several centuries, spreading from Europe to the rest of ...
in favor of creating paper cutouts.
References
1937 paintings
Paintings by Henri Matisse
Paintings in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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