Matisse, His Art and His Textiles
by Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Ann Dumas, Jack D. Flam, Rémi Labrusse, Dominique Szymusiak, Royal Academy of Arts, Kathleen Brunner
Category: Art

This illustrated book, which includes over 100 works by Matisse together with numerous colourful fabrics, is the catalogue of a groundbreaking exhibition at the Musee Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambresis; the Royal Academy of Arts, London; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Matisse's relationship with the textiles that surrounded him from his earliest days is revealed here for the first time. Charting how the fabrics he painted became the very fabric of his paintings, the authors examine the ways in which Matisse used what he called his 'working library' of textiles to furnish, order and compose some of the twentieth century's most pioneering works of art.