For decades, the cut-outs were a means to an end, a tool, until in 1943, when Matisse was commissioned to produce a book, called "Jazz." "There are 20 images in the book, and he uses cut paper to ...

As Michel Anthonioz, former director of the Musee d'Orsay, writes, the cut-outs allowed... Nina Hollein, Text by (Art/Photo Books), Max Hollein, Text by (Art/Photo Books), Henri Matisse ...

that he started working on the book. His health was poor and the cut-outs were a less physically demanding alternative to painting. Assistants colored sheets of paper with gouache to Matisse’s ...

In the published book, all the slight alterations in the ... his works are hanging on the walls of the Modern right now. Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs continues at the Museum of Modern Art (11 ...

an artist’s book of nearly 150 pages that was eventually published in 1947 and is often considered the first great expression of the new cut-out technique, Matisse felt compelled to articulate ...

The exhibition includes favorites like “The Parrot and the Mermaid,” original compositions (called maquettes) for Jazz, the book printed in 1947 from cut-outs Matisse had made three years earlier.

The book, by art historian Gilles Néret and educator Xavier-Gilles Néret, provides a historical overview of the cut-outs, from Matisse's 1930 trip to Tahiti through to his final years in Nice. A ...

Matisse’s book images range from simple line drawings ... it’s a serious point. Matisse’s cut-outs and Cubist collage, after all, comprise two of the most influential moments of painterly ...

Matisse first used paper as an aid in his composition process before marking his canvases in the 1930s. In the ‘40s he used cut-out paper shapes to illustrate a book called Jazz. He was ...

It is a cut-out design that some commentators, including Pierre Schneider in his great book about Matisse, regard as a little tame—a weakening of the artist’s powers. I find something ...

He has also authored books about politicians, show business people and economists. In old age in the 1940s, as he descended into ill health, Matisse began work on his cut-outs. "The culmination of ...