Young Woman in White on a Red Background

Young Woman in White on a Red Background (French: Jeune femme en blanc, fond rouge) is an oil on canvas painting by Henri Matisse, from c. 1946. It is held in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon.Museum collectionChristophe Viart, Matisse déculotté par la caméra, Henri Matisse de François Campau, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2008, pp. 185-194 (French)

It belongs to a cycle of paintings of interiors begun by Matisse in 1946 whilst in his villa Le Rêve at Vence (Alpes-Maritimes), just before working on the Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence.

See also List of works by Henri Matisse

References

Sources Museum collection