Green Stripe

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Henri Matisse. Portrait of Madame Matisse. (The green line). 1905. 40.50 x 32.5 cm. Oil and tempera on canvas. Statens Museum for Kunst.

The Green Line (La Raie Verte) also known as The Green Stripe or Mme Matisse, is a portrait of Henri Matisse's wife, Amélie Matisse. He painted it in 1905, just prior to such work being labeled as that of Les Fauves (the wild beasts), along with the works of André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck.

The painting hangs in Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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v • d • e Henri Matisse

Paintings	Woman Reading (1894) · Notre-Dame, une fin d'après-midi (1902) · The green line (1905) · The Open Window (1905) · Woman with a Hat (1905) · Les toits de Collioure (1905) · Landscape at Collioure (1905) · Le bonheur de vivre (1906) · The Young Sailor II (1906) · Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt (1906) · Madras Rouge (1907) · Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra) (1907) · The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room) (1908) · Bathers with a Turtle (1908) · La Danse (1909) · Still Life with Geraniums (1910) · L'Atelier Rouge (1911) · The Conversation (1908–1912) · Zorah on the Terrace (1912) · Le Rifain assis (1912) · Le rideau jaune (the yellow curtain) (1915) · The Window (1916) · The Painter and His Model (1917) · Interior A Nice (1920) · Odalisque with Raised Arms (1923) · Yellow Odalisque (1926) · The Dance II (1932) · Robe violette et Anémones (1937) · Woman in a Purple Coat (1937) · La Blouse Roumaine (1940) · Le Lanceur De Couteaux (1943) · Annelies, White Tulips and Anemones (1944) · L'Asie (1946) · Deux fillettes, fond jaune et rouge (1947) · The Plum Blossoms (1948) · Beasts of the Sea (1950) · The Sorrows of the King (1952) · Black Leaf on Green Background (1952) · La Négresse (1952) · Blue Nudes (1952) · The Snail (1953) · Le Bateau (1954)

Other works	Chapelle du Saint-Marie du Rosaire • Jazz (book)

Shows	Salon d'Automne

Movement	Fauvism

Teachers	William-Adolphe Bouguereau • Gustave Moreau • John Peter Russell

Collectors	Sergei Shchukin • Gertrude Stein • Leo Stein • Albert C. Barnes

Family	Pierre Matisse • Paul Matisse

Wikimedia	Matisse at Wiktionary • Matisse at Wikibooks • Matisse at Wikiquote • Matisse at Wikisource • Matisse at Commons • Matisse at Wikinews