Matisse : His Art and His Public
  • monograph
  • partial cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 26 x 20 cm.
  • 591 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Matisse : His Art and His Public

[Hardback / First Edition]

Henri Matisse, Alfred H. Barr Jr.

Matisse : His Art and His Public

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"Matisse : His Art and His Public is the most complete account we have, not only of the artists's life and achievement, but of how the world has received his art. For years Matisse was the most controversial living painter. The book's many quotations record how he was attacked, slyly or with blundering fury, and of how he was supported with hammer-and-tongs enthusiasm by English critics, German painters, Scandinavian pupils, a Russian businessman who was the world's greatest collector of 20th-century painting, and above all by Americans - Leo and Sarah Stein, Bernard Berenson, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Walter Pach - who, four decades ago, fought for his art in Paris and New York. Far greater than the warfare around Matisse's art was the struggle within the artists; no painter has suffered more creative anxiety or been more articulate about his artistic problems. Here you will find Matisse's own honest and lucid statements of his creative difficulties, which are of particular interest in conjunction with Mr. Barr's analyses and evaluations of hundreds of individual works." -- from interior flap. Includes notes to the plates and notes to the text, bibliography, and index. Printed in color and black-and-white.

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