In 1973 the lines outside Acquavella Galleries stretched down the block for a Matisse exhibition. More than fifty years later the gallery returned to the artist with its first show devoted to him since then, and this catalog preserves an exhibition that was seen only in New York.
Some fifty paintings, works on paper and sculptures, lent by museums, foundations and private collections and many of them rarely shown in the United States, trace Henri Matisse‘s investigation of form across five decades, from the first years of the twentieth century to his boldly inventive postwar period. The book sets his two- and three-dimensional work in dialogue, from the monumental bronze Backs to paintings such as Odalisque with Magnolias (1923).
The essays are by three leading Matisse scholars: John Klein, professor of art history at Washington University in St. Louis and author of Matisse Portraits and Matisse and Decoration; Elizabeth Cowling, professor emerita at the University of Edinburgh and co-author of Matisse Picasso; and Alastair Wright of Oxford, author of Matisse and the Subject of Modernism.
A handsome record of a rare exhibition, for collectors, scholars and admirers of Matisse.
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