Movement · 1905–1930

Fauvism & Expressionism

Color set free from description: red trees, green faces, cadmiums straight from the tube.

Across 40 works, the colors are mostly brown (29%), blue (15%) and gray (15%). On average the canvases are light, moderately saturated and warm. Signature colors, used far more here than across the collection: light scarlet, blue, dark blue, pale golden sand and scarlet red.

Color print

The swatches covering most of these canvases, averaged over every work, dark to light.

• MG 222 charcoal 9.7% of canvas
• MG 218 graphite 5.1% of canvas
• MG 171 bone 4.8% of canvas
• MG 212 pale grey 3.6% of canvas
• MG 211 dark slate 3.6% of canvas
• MG 177 dark taupe 3.5% of canvas
• MG 189 pale golden sand 3.4% of canvas
• MG 023 light scarlet 3.0% of canvas
• MG 213 light grey 2.9% of canvas
• MG 172 oatmeal 2.9% of canvas
• MG 106 blue 2.8% of canvas
• MG 099 dark muted blue 2.4% of canvas
• MG 219 bistre 2.4% of canvas
• MG 217 iron 2.3% of canvas
• MG 216 dark grey 2.3% of canvas
• MG 215 grey 2.3% of canvas

Measurements

Lightness

0.56

Contrast

0.50

Vividness

0.056

Warmth

+0.49

Complexity

194 cells

Hue range

0.58

Focus

0.06

Composition

Averaged over 40 works: 51% of the visual weight in the right half, 50% in the lower half; symmetry 0.48; 19% calm space; half of the detail in 32% of the canvas. Measured from each image, not a rule the painters followed.

Artists

• Alexej von Jawlensky 1864–1941
• Henri Matisse 1869–1954
• Paula Modersohn-Becker 1876–1907
• Raoul Dufy 1877–1953
• André Derain 1880–1954
• Franz Marc 1880–1916
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880–1938
• Amedeo Modigliani 1884–1920
• August Macke 1887–1914
• Marc Chagall 1887–1985
• Egon Schiele 1890–1918

Works

• Henri Matisse, 1905
• Mountains at Collioure, 1905
• The Golden Age, 1905
• The Green Stripe, 1905
• The Open Window, 1905
• Woman with a hat, 1905
• Portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1906
• Self-Portrait Looking Slightly Left, 1906
• Selfportrait at 6th wedding anniversary, 1906
• The Joy of Life, 1906
• Woman in a Chemise, 1906
• The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room), 1907
• L'Apéritif, 1908
• Trees in L'Estaque, 1908
• Porträt mit Äpfeln: Frau des Künstlers, 1909
• Birth, 1911
• Blue Horse I, 1911
• Dead City III, 1911
• Half-Length Nude with Hat, 1911
• The Large Blue Horses, 1911
• Yellow Cow, 1911
• Portrait of Wally, 1912
• Tête de femme, 1912
• Berlin Street Scene, 1913
• Woman in Green Jacket, 1913
• Mode: Woman with Parasol in front of Milliner's Shop, 1914
• The Tower of Blue Horses, 1914
• Death and the Maiden, 1915
• Self-portrait as a Soldier, 1915
• Female Nude, 1916
• Nu couché, c. 1917
• Seated Nude, 1917
• Alice, 1918
• The Family, 1918
• Abstract Head, 1921
• Medusa, 1923
• The Praying Jew, 1923
• The Circus Rider, c. 1922–1932
• Le Cours de la Seine, c. 1937
• White Crucifixion, 1938