When Matisse was commissioned by the collector Albert C. Barnes (of what became the Barnes Foundation) to create a monumental mural – The Dance – he began to arrange his composition using cut-outs. A very handsome book on this innovative period, large format, many colour plates.
Matisse in the 1930s
£40.00
Edition:Hardback978087633299313/09/2022
Categories: 09. Books for Christmas 2022: Art & Exhibitions, Art, Books for Christmas 2022
Tags: C20th Art, France
From a Bookshelf nearby
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This long interview, recorded with the Swiss critic Pierre Courthion when the artist was recovering from an operation in bed during the Nazi Occupation, was never published - until now.
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Examines the feverish decade before WWI, when the Old Masters and the Avant-Gardists split the art world in two.
Art of the Extreme 1905-1914
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Kokoschka – The Untimely Modernist
Hardback £20.00