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Matisse’s sculptures tend to be overshadowed by his paintings. Matisse turned to sculpture off and on, usually when he was having difficulty with a painting. It offered both an escape from his painting problem and a way to understand his subject better. In all, he created more than seventy sculptures. Most of Matisse’s sculptures are small, freestanding figures. He made them first in clay and then had them cast in bronze. Madeleine I was his first important bronze sculpture. Matisse took great pleasure in manipulating the clay’s shape and surface texture. Often he made multiple versions of the same piece, either starting over or reworking an existing sculpture. Through sculpture he could study a three-dimensional form by moving all around it, before flattening it into a two-dimensional image in his painting. |
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