If you were a boy named Henri Matisse who lived in a dreary town in northern France, what would your life be like? Would it be full of color and art? Full of lines and dancing figures? Find out in this beautiful, unusual picture book about one of the world's most famous and influential artists by ac[...]

Henri Matisse: Meet the Artist provides an overview of Matisse's artistic career, reflecting on each pivotal period, including sculpture, fauve paintings, his friendship w/ Picasso and his paper cut-outs. The Meet the Artist series is a whimsical exploration of famous artists through interactive pop[...]

This is the sixth title in the highly-successful Anholt's Artists series about great painters. Each book tells the story of real meetings between a world-famous artist and a child who inspired him in his work, with reproductions of some of the artist's most famous works. This book describes the clos[...]

Describes the close relationship between the artist Matisse and Monique, a young girl who wants to become a nun. Part of the Anholt's Artists series.[...]

Henri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a printmaker and sculptor, but is best known as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the[...]

A reevaluation of Matisse that reveals the complex function of his work and thought in contemporary art's escape from the image, from traditional forms of art, and even from the art form itself.Accused by his contemporaries of both arid overtheorisation and a hedonistic abandon to the pleasures of c[...]

Henri Matisse (1869?1954) war süchtig nach neuen Gesichtern, für ihn war das Porträtieren die zentrale schöpferische Herausforderung. Das Katalogbuch macht mit einer konzisen Werkauswahl aus allen Schaffensperioden, mit Gemälden ebenso wie mit Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, den prozesshaften Weg s[...]

For Henri Matisse, drawing was an exercise as personal as it was essential to his art. Reproduced on elegant paper stock, these black and white and gently coloured sketches allow the viewer to appreciate the quality of Matisse's lines, their confidence and ease, as well as the intense relationship b[...]