The Green Stripe
ArtistHenri Matisse
Year1905
MediumOil on canvas
LocationStatens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
About The Green Stripe
A portrait of Matisses wife with a green stripe down the center of her face. The color is not descriptive but expressive. Shocked viewers at the 1905 Salon dAutomne, earning the group the name Fauves, or wild beasts. The wife reportedly said it did not look like her.
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