Jeanette

work by Matisse

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Cubist sculpture

  • Edmonia Lewis: Hagar
    In Western sculpture: Avant-garde sculpture (1909–20)

    Matisse’s head of Jeanette (1910–11) also partakes of a personal reproportioning that gives a new vitality to the less mobile areas of the face. Likewise influenced by the Cubists’ manipulation of their subject matter, Alexander Archipenko in his Woman Combing Her Hair (1915) rendered the body by means…

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