Matisse's Window (Earth Touching Shakyamuni)
2020-2021
acrylic on wood
7-3/8" x 5-1/4"
This is a variation of a Tricolor, as a test/study; the gound with the extended yellow border alludes to the 'Earth-Touching Shakyamini" sculpture form in Buddhist Art. The panel was prepared in 2008 and an earlier composition (a test) that was rejected, thus allowing this to be re-worked and considered among the '2021 recasts' [ previously, the '2021 transatlantics' ]- re-working, often out of scale or out of established formal elements. The image is of the Window in Nice of Matisse's home.
In 2021, this was acquired to a private Collection in Brooklyn.