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 ...

The painted sheets of paper are infused with the luminosity of stained glass. The book, by art historian Gilles Néret and educator Xavier-Gilles Néret, provides a historical overview of the cut-outs, ...

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 ...

As is always the case with Matisse, serious study yields ample rewards. But for all of Matisse’s subsequent influence, one wonders at the same time what exactly is the legacy of these late cut-outs.

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 ...

Tate Modern must know that with Matisse: the Cut-Outs they have a winner ... models or maquettes he made for the illustrations to his book Jazz (1943-46). As he grasped the implications of ...

The show, Henri Matisse: the Cut-Outs, displays 100 artworks by Matisse, and will run through Feb 8 at the Museum of Modern Art. [Photo/Agencies] Blue figures swim around walls, dancers prance in ...

The later cut-outs certainly do. They start small and get bigger and more wonderful as the exhibition goes on, indeed, as Matisse neared the end of his life. There were other difficulties.

He seems to be waiting for the cut-outs to occupy space – to make space ... (This to and fro of contraries is dealt with powerfully in a new book by Todd Cronan, Against Affective Formalism: Matisse, ...