Matisse Cut-outs 40th Ed. Book

A condensed edition of the original award-winning XXL Matisse Cut-outs book, now published in a special 40th anniversary edition from TASCHEN.

Confined to a wheelchair towards the end of his life, Henri Matisse reinvented himself. This new edition looks at the bright, bold cut-outs with which he created a new medium of art, tracing their roots to his 1930 trip to Tahiti and continuing through to his final years in Nice.

In their deceptive simplicity, the cut-outs achieved both a sculptural quality and an early minimalist abstraction, which would profoundly influence generations of artists to come. Exuberant, multi-hued, and often grand in scale, these works are true pillars of 20th-century art, and as bold and innovative to behold today as they were in Matisse’s lifetime.

DETAILS
Format: Hardcover
Size: 15.6 x 21.7 cm
Pages: 412