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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 9’43⁄4 × 9′ 5 (287 × 288 cm). The piece is in the Tate Gallery 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 used the colored paper to interpret it.