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Chatting with Henri Matisse: The Lost 1941 Interview
Henri Matisse
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Description for Chatting with Henri Matisse: The Lost 1941 Interview
Hardcover. Editor(s): Guilbaut, Serge. Translator(s): Miller, Chris, (Ph. BIC Classification: ACXD; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
In 1941 the Swiss art critic Pierre Courthion interviewed Henri Matisse while the artist was in bed recovering from a serious operation. It was an extensive interview, seen at the time as a vital assessment of Matisse's career and set to be published by Albert Skira's then newly established Swiss press. After months of complicated discussions between Courthion and Matisse, and just weeks before the book was to come out-the artist even had approved the cover design-Matisse suddenly refused its publication. A typescript of the interview now resides in Courthion's papers at the Getty Research Institute.; This rich conversation, conducted ... Read more
In 1941 the Swiss art critic Pierre Courthion interviewed Henri Matisse while the artist was in bed recovering from a serious operation. It was an extensive interview, seen at the time as a vital assessment of Matisse's career and set to be published by Albert Skira's then newly established Swiss press. After months of complicated discussions between Courthion and Matisse, and just weeks before the book was to come out-the artist even had approved the cover design-Matisse suddenly refused its publication. A typescript of the interview now resides in Courthion's papers at the Getty Research Institute.; This rich conversation, conducted ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Getty Research Institute
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Los Angeles, United States
ISBN
9781606061299
SKU
V9781606061299
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Ref
99-14
About Henri Matisse
Serge Guilbaut, a professor of art history at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, writes extensively on modern and contemporary art.
Reviews for Chatting with Henri Matisse: The Lost 1941 Interview
"Full of reminiscences, apercus, and surprising revelations from the master."
ARTnews "[Chatting with Henri Matisse] sheds light on [Matisse's] process and his approach to color."
ArtInfo "[A] comprehensively contextualised restoration of this rare and uninhibited testimonial, emerging from a moment that Matisse correspondingly called his 'resurrection' from near-death."
Burlington Magazine "[These interviews] give valuable insight into a major artist who was not ... Read more
ARTnews "[Chatting with Henri Matisse] sheds light on [Matisse's] process and his approach to color."
ArtInfo "[A] comprehensively contextualised restoration of this rare and uninhibited testimonial, emerging from a moment that Matisse correspondingly called his 'resurrection' from near-death."
Burlington Magazine "[These interviews] give valuable insight into a major artist who was not ... Read more