Description:
Matisse by Jean Selz published by Crown Publishers, June 1990
ISBN-10: 0517037238
ISBN-13: 9780517037232
Hardcover
8.35 x 11 inches
The diversity and intensity of the French master's works are revealed through photographs and text
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Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.
The intense colourism of the works he painted between 1900 and 1905 brought him notoriety as one of the Fauves (French for "wild beasts"). Many of his finest works were created in the decade or so after 1906, when he… Read More
