The Snail
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| Artists | Henri Matisse |
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| Dimensions | 2. 87 m x 2. 88 m |
| Created | 1952–1953 |
| Locations | London |
| Media | Paper, Gouache |
| Supports | Paper |
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| ID | 2458321 |
About The Snail
The Snail is a collage by Henri Matisse. The work was created from summer 1952 to early 1953. It is pigmented with gouache on paper, cut and pasted onto a base layer of white paper measuring 9'4³⁄₄" × 9' 5". The piece is in the Tate Modern collection in London.
Nottingham: Newly discovered rare 'lefty' snail looking for love
... He previously experimented using " lefty" Jeremy, who also had genitals on the opposite side, making it very difficult for The Snail to mate with other snails...
The man rescuing Britain's 'magical' glow worms
... In a scenario out of a horror movie, the young insects crawl onto the animal s shell and inject a paralysing toxin that slowly turns The Snail s insides into soup, which they then suck dry...
Left-handed DNA found - and it changes brain structure
... (Remember the quest to find Jeremy the garden snail because, in The Snail world, righties and lefties can t have sex as their genitals are in the wrong place as far as the other is concerned? ) Jeremy the lefty snail and one of his right-spiralling-shell offspring Scans of participants in the UK Biobank project showed the cytoskeleton was changing the structure of the white matter in the brain...
Bermuda land snail: An animal 'back from the dead'
... Mark Outerbridge, a wildlife ecologist for the Bermuda government, said The Snail was a Lazarus species , which was considered extinct not so long ago...
