Henri Matisse: The Early Years in Nice

Location: Yonge and College /downtown Toronto Cash only; prices are firm. "HENRI MATISSE: THE EARLY YEARS IN NICE 1916-1930 is a feast for the senses. Almost 200 colorplates do justice to a supreme master of color and of light. The authors reevaluate a major turning point in Matisse's career, breaking much new ground and clarifying his development in a period that has been greatly enjoyed but little understood. During these years Matisse met a complex series of artistic challenges with the inventiveness of true genius—aided by much hard work. There are failures as well as triumphs, for this was nothing less than a search for a new space and a new chromatic definition. The result was a new light—nonimpressionist and nonexpressionist—that becomes the major pictorial achievement as well as the subject of Matisse's first years in Nice..." - Henri Matisse: The Early Years in Nice 1916-1930 - Jack Cowart & Dominique Fourcade Check out my other book posts as well!