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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."