. "The Snail"@en . "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 9'43\u20444\" \u00D7 9' 5\" (287 \u00D7 288 cm). The piece is in the Stedelijk museum collection in Amsterdam.It consists of a number of colored shapes arranged in a spiral pattern, as suggested by the title. Matisse first drew the snail, then used the colored paper to interpret it."@en . .