Dance (Matisse)

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Dance
Artist	Henri Matisse
Year	1910
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	260 cm × 391 cm (102.4 in × 153.9 in)
Location	The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Dance (La Danse) is a painting made by Henri Matisse in 1910, at the request of Russian businessman and art collector Sergei Shchukin, who bequeathed the large decorative panel to the Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg. The composition of dancing figures is commonly recognized as "a key point of (Matisse's) career and in the development of modern painting".^[1] A preliminary version of the work, sketched by Matisse in 1909 as a study for the work, resides at MoMA in New York, where it has been labeled Dance (I).

La Danse was first exhibited at the Salon d'Automne of 1910 (1 October – 8 November), Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Paris.^[2]