Matisse Paper Cutouts

Vintage hardback coffee table book featuring the work of renowned artist, Henri Matisse. By Jean Guichard-Meili, published in 1984. Second edition.

"It is impossible to appreciate fully the orginality and historical importance of Matisse's paper cutouts (gouaches découpées) and related works unless we situate them in relation to his earlier research and his output as a whole. Now universally regarded as the greatest colourist of the century, Matisse constantly explored and exploited all the resources of colour, seeing it neither as an ornament nor as a way of clothing form, but as the very essence of painting."