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From 2007 to the present, Matthias Schaller has searched museums and different institutions for palettes used by artists from the XIX and XX centuries, and he has then taken large scale photographs of them all. He has titled this work Das Meisterstück (masterpiece). The paint on the different palettes captures how each artist organized space and colour, the strength with which the paint is used and the movement of the brushstrokes. For Schaller, each palette is a portrait of the painter who used it. It is a brief reflection of what would be later committed to the final finished canvas.