Upper-right corners of Back (I) and Back (II)

Comparing the surface markings of the upper-right corners of the grayscale images of Back (I) and Back (II), we can see that the artist chiseled down the surface, leaving prominent, repeated marks that fan out and up from the right side. In this area, Matisse marked the surface in a manner that recalls the hatched patterns he used to describe volumes in other works, including the third state of Bathers by a River.

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