Matisse- Cut-Outs--"Painting with Scissors"

Matisse, Blue Nude, 1952 via Moma

Henri Matisse

Matisse, The Fall of Icarus, 1943

Matisse

Matisse, Swimming Pool, Hotel Regina, Nice

Matisse exhibit at the Tate

 

 

Matisse

Matisse

Matisse, Black and Violet Arabesques on Orange Background, c. 1951 via A Long Time Alone

Matisse

 

Matisse, Hotel Regina, Nice via Moma

Matisse

Matisse

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Matisse, Japanese Mask



 

At age 82, often bedridden and in ill health, the French Modernist painter, Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954), created his series of cut outs, using  a pair of scissors and white paper painted with gouache--
now on exhibit at MOMA--