Matisse Cut-outs

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Henri Matisse (1869–1954) was a fighting spirit. Despite a cancer diagnosis in 1941, increasing frailty and the confines of a wheelchair, the indomitable Frenchman never stopped in his quest to make art. With what he called “une seconde vie,” a second life, he embarked on a remarkable collage period, cutting and pasting pieces of colored paper into “gouaches découpées” of birds, plants, flowers, and the female form.Emphasizing color and contrast, the cut-out technique generated both striking lin

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