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The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room)

Abstract and Modernist Paintings

The Dessert: Harmony in Red is a 1908 painting by Henri Matisse, one of the defining works of the Fauvist movement. Matisse first exhibited it with a blue background under the title Harmony in Blue, then repainted the background red in 1909 and retitled it The Dessert: Harmony in Red. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Year Created
1908 1
Medium
Oil on canvas 1
Location
Hermitage Museum 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Oil on Canvas 1
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Created By

Henri Matisse, Artists
Source The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room) (Wikipedia)

In Form

Painting, Art Forms
Source The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room) (Wikipedia)

In Genre

Painting, Art Forms

Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.

Sources
1. The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room) (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox, year
    1908
  • Infobox, medium
    Oil on canvas
  • Infobox, museum
    Hermitage Museum
  • Genre reference
    The Dessert: Harmony in Red is a 1908 painting by Henri Matisse, one of the defining works of the Fauvist movement.
  • In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
    The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room) is a painting by Henri Matisse. Previously titled Harmony in Blue, the painting had a blue background when Matisse first exhibited it in 1908. In 1909, Matisse changed the blue to red, re
  • Created By: Henri Matisse, lead paragraph
    The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room) is a painting by Henri Matisse. Previously titled Harmony in Blue, the painting had a blue background when Matisse first exhibited it in 1908. In 1909, Matisse changed the blue to red, re
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