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Published in conjunction with the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to Henri Matisses paper cut-outs, made from the early 1940s until the artists death in 1954, this publication presents approximately 150 works in a groundbreaking reassessment of Matisses 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 artists 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.



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