The Matisse stories
By: A.S. Byatt.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
Subjects: Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954 -- Appreciation -- Fiction
Description: This elegant, beautifully illustrated edition contains three stories, each touched in a different way by the paintings of Henri Matisse. Their subjects' lives unravel from simple beginnings - a trip to the hairdresser, a cleaning woman's passion for knitting, lunch in a Chinese restaurant - but gradually the veneer of ordinariness is peeled back to expose pain, reveal desire, or express the intensity of joy in color and creation.