The Snail [SEP] creator
The Snail
The Snail (L'escargot) 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 9'4" × 9' 5" (287 × 288 cm). The piece is in the Tate Modern collection in London. 
It consists of a number of colored shapes arranged in a spiral pattern, as suggested by the title. Matisse first drew the snail, then
PM, Halazonetis T, Rauscher FJ3rd., 14-3-3 binding sites in the snail protein are essential for snail-mediated transcriptional repression and epithelial-mesenchymal differentiation., Cancer Research. 2010 Jun 1;70(11):4385-93. [Epub 2010 May 25] Erratum in: Cancer Res. 2010 Sep 1;70(17):7012-3.
External links.
- Dr. Rauscher's lab page on The Wistar Institute's website