Stephanie D'Alessandro; John Elderfield — Matisse: Radical Invention 1913-1917

New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 2010. First edition. Paperback. A smart first softcover edition of this examination of the experimental works of French visual artist Henri Matisse. First paperback edition. With the vanishingly scarce original glassine wrapper. Illustrated throughout with colour images. This volume examines the working method, experimental techniques, and compositional choices Matisse used in works created between 1913 and 1917. Exploring the most innovative, momentous, and yet little-studied time in the artist's long career. Henri Emile Benoit Matisse was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, being responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Written by Stephanie D'Alessandro and John Elderfield, American art historians and Curators, Elderfield working at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In the original full card wraps. Externally, excellent. Original glassine wrapper is very smart with light wear and the odd small mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: Matisse. Fine/Near Fine.