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Matisse Author: Gilles Neret

ISBN: 9783836536295 Format: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 334 Published: 15 August 2014 Country of Publication: DE Dimensions (cm): 37.9 x 29.1 x 3.4 Description: Drawing with scissors: The revolutionary late-period work by MatisseTowards the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbrush for a longer period of time. In this late phase of his life-he was almost 80 years of age-he developed the technique of 'carving into color', creating bright, bold paper cut-outs. Though dismissed by some contemporary critics as the folly of a senile old man, thesegouaches decoupees (gouache cut-outs) in fact represented a revolution in modern art, awhole new medium that re-imagined the age-old conflict between color and line.

This fresh, standard TASCHEN edition of our original prize-winning XL volume provides a thorough historical context to Matisse's cut-outs, tracing their roots in his 1930 trip to Tahiti, through to his final years in Nice. It includes many photos of Matisse, some rare color images, by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brassaï, and the filmmakerMurnau and text from Matisse, Picasso,</stron...

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