Overlay of Back (I) and Back (II), 1.25 cm differences identified

This more detailed digital overlay compares the relative depths of Back (I) and Back (II) up to a difference of less than 1.25 centimeters. Here we can see that the left side of the back and the right arm and thigh of Back (II) are less than 0.5 centimeters higher than Back (I), meaning that the changes were far more subtle in the background and some of the contours of the figure.

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Back: 1908-09, 1911(?)-13, 1913-16, c. 1931
A Great French Painter, Henri Matisse: A film from 1946
Art Institute of Chicago
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