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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 The book includes unpublished correspondence and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.
In 1995, Welcome Books published the star of its "Art and Poetry"
series, "Dance Me to the End of Love", a deliriously romantic song
by Leonard Cohen visualized through the warm, spirited paintings
and collages of Henri Matisse. Now, for its 10-year anniversary,
Welcome presents a new edition of "Dance Me to the End of Love"
featuring a revised design. Cohen's song is a lyrical tribute to
the miracle of love, the grace it bestows on us, and its healing
power. Originally recorded on his "Various Positions" album, and
featured in Cohen's anthology, "Stranger Music", this poetic song
is gloriously married to artwork by Henri Matisse, perhaps the
greatest artist of the twentieth century. "I had this dance within
me for a long time," Matisse once said in describing one of his
murals. "Dance Me to the End of Love" is the perfect book for art
lovers, song lovers, and all other lovers as well.
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Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs (Hardcover)
Henri Matisse; Edited by Karl Buchberg, Nicholas Cullinan, Jodi Hauptman; Text written by Samantha Friedman
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Published in conjunction with the most comprehensive exhibition
ever devoted to Henri Matisse's paper cut-outs, made from the early
1940s until the artist's death in 1954, this publication presents
approximately 150 works in a groundbreaking reassessment of
Matisse's colorful and innovative final chapter. The result of
research conducted on two fronts--conservation and curatorial--the
catalogue offers a reconsideration of the cut-outs by exploring a
host of technical and conceptual issues: the artist's methods and
materials and the role and function of the works in his practice;
their economy of means and exploitation of decorative strategies;
their environmental aspects; and their double lives, first as
contingent and mutable in the studio and ultimately made permanent,
a transformation accomplished via mounting and framing. Richly
illustrated to present the cut-outs in all of their vibrancy and
luminosity, the book includes an introduction and a conservation
essay that consider the cut-outs from new theoretical and technical
perspectives, and five thematic essays, each focusing on a
different moment in the development of the cut-out practice, that
provide a chronicle of this radical medium's unfolding, and period
photographs that show the works in process in Matisse's
studio.
One of modern art's towering figures, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was
a painter, draftsman, sculptor and printmaker before turning to
paper cut-outs in the 1940s. From the clashing hues of his Fauvist
works made in the South of France in 1904-05, to the harmonies of
his Nice interiors from the 1920s, to this brilliant final chapter,
Matisse followed a career-long path that he described as
"construction by means of color."
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The Museum Of Modern Art, November 13, 1951 To January 13, 1952;
The Cleveland Museum Of Art, February 5 To March 16, 1952; The Art
Institute Of Chicago, April 1 To May 4, 1952; The San Francisco
Museum Of Art, May 22 To July 6, 1952.
The Museum Of Modern Art, November 13, 1951 To January 13, 1952;
The Cleveland Museum Of Art, February 5 To March 16, 1952; The Art
Institute Of Chicago, April 1 To May 4, 1952; The San Francisco
Museum Of Art, May 22 To July 6, 1952.
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