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Who commissioned Henri Matisse’s mural The Dance II for the Barnes Foundation?

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Henri Matisse stands in a studio wearing a painter's smock, holding a palette beside a wooden ladder, with abstract artwork visible in the background. — Henri Matisse French artist Henri Matisse, photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1913.

The mural The Dance II was commissioned by Albert C. Barnes for the Barnes Foundation.1