How does this artwork elucidate its abstract?
Dance (La Danse) is a painting made by Henri Matisse in 1910, at the request of Russian businessman and art collector Sergei Shchukin, who bequeathed the large decorative panel to the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The composition of dancing figures is commonly recognized as "a key point of (Matisse's) career and in the development of modern painting". A preliminary version of the work, sketched by Matisse in 1909  as a study for the work, resides at MoMA in New York City, where it has been labeled Dance (I).
La Danse was first exhibited at the Salon d'Automne of 1910 (1 October – 8 November), Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Paris.
New York City Hermitage Museum Sergei Shchukin Salon d'Automne MoMA Saint Petersburg Henri Matisse Russia