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Chatting with Henri Matisse - The Lost 1941 Interview (Hardcover, New)
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Chatting with Henri Matisse - The Lost 1941 Interview (Hardcover, New)
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In 1941 the Swiss art critic Pierre Courthion interviewed Henri
Matisse while the artist was in bed recovering from a serious
operation. It was an extensive interview, seen at the time as a
vital assessment of Matisse's career and set to be published by
Albert Skira's then newly established Swiss press. After months of
complicated discussions between Courthion and Matisse, and just
weeks before the book was to come out-the artist even had approved
the cover design-Matisse suddenly refused its publication. A
typescript of the interview now resides in Courthion's papers at
the Getty Research Institute.; This rich conversation, conducted
during the Nazi occupation of France, is published for the first
time in this volume, where it appears both in English translation
and in the original French version. Matisse unravels memories of
his youth and his life as a bohemian student in Gustave Moreau's
atelier. He recounts his experience with collectors, including
Alfred Barnes. He discusses fame, writers, musicians, politicians,
and, most fascinatingly, his travels. Chatting with Henri Matisse,
introduced by Serge Guilbaut, contains a preface by Claude Duthuit,
Matisse's grandson, and essays by Yve-Alain Bois and Laurence
Bertrand Dorleac. The book includes unpublished correspondence and
other original documents related to Courthion's interview and
abounds with details about avant-garde life, tactics, and artistic
creativity in the first half of the twentieth century.
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