"Matisse Paper Cutouts" 1984 GUICHARD-MEILI, Jean Cecil Beaton Gucci of Italy

Gucci of Italy

70" (width of bottom)

A promotional brochure for Guinness

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"Matisse Paper Cutouts" 1984 GUICHARD-MEILI, Jean Cecil Beaton Gucci of ItalyGUICHARD MEILI, Jean w 157 Illustrations, 105 in colour Thames and Hudson 1984 14" x 10 3 8" "At the end of his career Henri Matisse embarked on a new style and a new medium, one that he had previously used only as an aid to planning his large decorative compositions. The paper cutout or gouache decoupee is made by cutting shapes out of paper that has been previously colored with poster color. In Matisse's hands it grew into an autonomous medium, and