Henri Matisse Dance Painting . Nasturtiums with the painting dance i. Matisse's representations of his studio often include glimpses of other artwork. The final work and its pendant painting, *music ( (both completed in 1910), are housed in the collection of the hermitage museum in st. Henri matisse, detail dance i, 1909, oil on canvas, 259.7 x 390 cm (museum of modern art, new york city) what matisse has done here, even in seemingly simple rendering, is use spatial ambiguity to explore one of the key issues in modern painting, the conflict between the illusion of depth and an acknowledgment of the flatness of the canvas. Henri matisse, detail, dance i, 1909, oil on canvas, 259.7 x 390 cm (museum of modern art, new york city) what matisse has done here, even in seemingly simple rendering, is use spatial ambiguity to explore one of the key issues in modern painting, the conflict between the illusion of depth and an acknowledgment of the flatness of the canvas.
