Although Matisse had already tried his hand at standalone cut-outs—notably for the abstract cover of the Cahiers d’Art in 1936—they were clearly ancillary to the major project of painting.

Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York) This at least is the standard narrative about the cut-outs that many art historians relate. Yet there was another factor besides illness that ...

Hauptman, one of the organizers of "Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, said, "Even at that point when he'd had a full career, he was well-known, he could have ...

Composed of paper shapes set out in ravishing color combinations, Matisse’s cut-outs, on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City through Feb. 8, 2015, are stunningly lyrical and uplifting.

but there were hundreds of them hoping to catch a last glimpse of the sprawling Henri Matisse "Cut Outs" exhibition before it shutters on Tuesday, February 10 at the Museum of Modern Art.

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but didn’t stop him from creating art. Instead of using a paintbrush, he began — as he described it — “painting with scissors.” Matisse cut shapes out of paper freehand, arranging and ...

“Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs,” at the Museum of Modern Art, is the strangest youthquake the world has ever seen—a youthquake dreamed up by an artist in his seventies and sustained straight ...

They predate Pop Art. The images have been reproduced ... The work originated as a swallow that Matisse had cut out of white writing paper and then pinned to the wall of his studio to cover ...

Matisse: The Cut-Outs has landed in New York City’s Museum of Modern Art this fall after a successful showing at London’s Tate Modern (see “Matisse Show Attracts 562,622 Visitors to Tate ...