Henri Matisse: Paper Cut-Outs; 1977. Softcover (LF)

Catalogue of exhibition held 1977-8 in St. Louis, Detroit and Washington. Color frontispiece, acknowledgments, introduction by Cowart, scholarly articles by Flam, Fourcade and Neff. 24 color plates. Black and white illustrations throughout. Listing of previous exhibitions of Matisse cut-outs, index and photo credits. 304 pages.

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."