Students discuss the Matisse painting with a museum educator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Henri Matisse: Dance (I) Paris, Boulevard des Invalides, early 1909. Matisse created Dance (I) as a study for a painting commissioned by the Russian businessman and arts patron Sergei Shchukin. The final work and its pendant painting, Music (both completed in 1910), are housed in the collection of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.

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