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 ...

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A review of "Henri Matisse: the Cut-Outs" opening at the Tate Modern April 17th and traveling to MoMA in New York this ... a prisoner of success,” wrote Henri Matisse in his book Jazz (1947).

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.

Henri Matisse started making his iconic cut-outs after an illness. But it was a special journey that inspired the form they would take. Alastair Sooke reports. Last month an important exhibition ...

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. The ...

If you missed the extraordinary, symphonic exhibition “Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs,” at New York’s Museum of Modern Art last fall and winter; or if you saw it and are ready for a reprise of ...

Composed of paper shapes set out in ravishing color combinations, Matisse’s cut-outs, on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City through Feb. 8, 2015, are stunningly lyrical and uplifting.

Works from four books, including "Jazz," will be on view through Dec. 31 at the Portland Museum of Art.

Surely “Matisse: The Cut-Outs” is the must-see museum show in New York this fall, with Leonard Lauder’s extraordinary collection of Cubist paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art running ...

In old age in the 1940s, as he descended into ill health, Matisse began work on his cut-outs. "The culmination of Matisse's long career, the cutouts reflect both a deep engagement with form and ...