Rainbird, Sean and Ina Conzen and Ortrud Westheider — Matisse: People, Masks, Models

Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 2008. Hardcover. Green paper-covered boards; White lettering on spine; Green illus. dj.; 228 pp.; 113 color and duotone plates, numerous color and duotone figures. Text in English; Accompanied the exhibition of the same name, which appeared at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and Bucerius Kunst Forum in 2008 and 2009; Includes several essays and a biography of the artist. Contents as follows: The true image : on spirituality in Henri Matisse's portraits / Ina Conzen -- Conflicting harmonies : portrait versus decoration / John Klein -- Henri Matisse and the women he painted : a biographical reappraisal / Hilary Spurling -- A women's painter and men : Matisse's male models and sitters / Peter Kropmanns -- Marguerite, her father's model / Isabelle Monod-Fontaine -- The portrait as manifesto : Matisse as portraitist / Ortrud Westheider -- Two Danish collectors and their choice of Matisse's portraits : Christian Tetzen-Lund and Johannes Rump / Kasper Monrad -- Vis-à-vis : short bioigraphies of Matisse's models and sitters / Susanne Scharf -- Henri Matisse : biography / Frank-Thomas Ziegler. VG+ .