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art and photography

Zorah in a Yellow Robe (Matisse Painting)

Juan Cole 07/24/2012

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Henri Matisse, Zorah: La Robe Jaune. Oil on Canvass. Morocco, 1912. Collection Cowles

it has been argued that Matisse stepped back, on his first trip in Morocco, from painting “wild, Fauvist women” to a more mature concern with the person and culture of his model, the Moroccan courtesan Zorah, whom he names and whom he shows clothed in her everyday dress.

Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was a leader of the “Fauvist” movement in modern French painting, “characterized by its spontaneity and roughness of execution as well as use of raw color straight from the palette to the canvas.” He was deeply influenced by his trips to Morocco in 1912 and 1913.

Later in life, Matisse referred to two of his Morocco-period paintings as “pivotal.”

See also Matisse’s “Algerian Woman” and his “The Moroccans”

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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