Year 1908 Created 1908 Genre History painting | Location Hermitage Museum Period Expressionism | |
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Dimensions 115 cm × 147 cm (45 in × 58 in) Similar Henri Matisse artwork, Artwork at Hermitage Museum | ||
Game of Bowls is a 1908 painting by the French artist Henri Matisse. The painting shows three young men, probably Matisse's sons and nephew, playing a game of Boules. Matisse sees the game as a manifestation of man's creativity, and an instrument to use in understanding the codes of life. The painting is part of Matisse's series on man's "Golden Age" and was part of Sergei Shchukin's collection before the October Revolution of 1917. It is now in the collection of The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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