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Art of the Western World: From Ancient Greece to Post-Modernismby Bruce Cole, Adelheid GealtISBN 0671747282 (0-671-74728-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art of the Western World: From Ancient Greece to Post-Modernism'Book summary:In this magnificently illustrated and comprehensive book, readers will take one of the most beautiful journeys our world has to offer: an exploration of the greatest are and architecture of Western civilization. Art of the Western World -- the companion volume to the nine-part PBS television series -- traces the history of Western art from its classical roots in ancient Greece up to the present day and the international Post-Modernism of artists as diverse as Christo, Hockney, and Kiefer. Along the way experts Bruce Cole and Adelheid Gealt carefully chart the evolution of the Western tradition, from the grandeur of Roman architecture to the symbolic language of medieval art, through the unparalleled achievements of the Renaissance, the turbulent emotionalism of the Romantics like Turner and Constable, the Impressionists' search for a new reality, and the revolution of the Abstract Expressionists of the twentieth century.
Art of the Western World integrates the works of each period with the history, values, and ideals that gave birth to them: the influence of the Medicis and other great patrons of Renaissance Italy; the resurgence of the classical style, inspired by the French Revolution; the break with the past evidenced in the works of the Impressionists; and the tortured visions of the modern world devastated by wars depicted in the paintings of Picasso, Marc, Groez, and others.
A valuable key to understanding the language of art, Art of the Western World offers fresh insight into what the great works meant at the time they were created and why they maintain their special meaning to us now. It is the perfect guide to the masterpieces of Western art. [via]
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A Bird or 2: A Story About Henri Matisseby Bijou Le TordISBN 0802851843 (0-8028-5184-3)
Hardcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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Dance Me to the End of Loveby Henri Matisse, Leonard CohenISBN 1556704062 (1-55670-406-2)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Dance Me to the End of Loveby Leonard Cohen, Henri MatisseISBN 1932183930 (1-932183-93-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Fauves and Fauvismby Jean LeymarieISBN 0847808157 (0-8478-0815-7)
Softcover, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
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Henri Matisseby Henri MatisseISBN 081090277X (0-8109-0277-X)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henri Matisse'Book summary:"...to devote my life to the essential thing-- the thing for which I am made and which can bring a little happiness to the great family, the greatest spiritual family."--Matisse to André Rouveyre, September 4, 1942[via]
Of all the artists of this century, Henri Matisse is one of the greatest and most beloved. His influence on modern art, both during his lifetime and today, has never stopped growing; in the eyes of the world, he is the French painter par excellence.
Henri Matisse is all the more cherished because his work celebrates the positive aspects of life, as evidenced by the titles of many of his major paintings: Luxe, Calme et Volupté, La Joie de Vivre, La Danse, Musique, to mention but a few. His explosions and juxtapositions of color and pattern inspire pure delight in the beholder, and his mastery of line, volume, and form are perhaps unequaled in the art of our time. The vitality, energy, and life-enhancing qualities that radiate from his art represent distillation of all that is affirmative in the human condition and are given immortality through that rare and indefinable quality known as genius.
The art of Matisse describes a trajectory leading from realism to abstraction, from darkness to light, from the cold of the north to the heat of the south, a route marked off by such revolutionary innovations as the burst of color found in Fauvism or the invention of his cut-outs. Matisse was still creating at a time in his life when many artists are content to rest on their laurels.
Since its original publication in 1984, this book by Pierre Schneider stands alone as the bible on the art of Matisse. The author spent fourteen years amassing a prodigious amount of information on the artist, and includes his own personal and original views on the work. Including over nine hundred illustrations, this is the most substantial reference of the works of Matisse ever published.
The reader will discover Matisse watercolorist, draftsman, ceramist, and the architect-- and unquestionably one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. 
Henri Matisseby Jane O'Connor, Jessie HartlandISBN 044842519X (0-448-42519-X)
Softcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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Henri Matisseby Mike VeneziaISBN 0516261460 (0-516-26146-0)
Softcover, Childrens Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henri Matisse'Book summary:Young readers will obtain a light-hearted ye t realistic overview of the celebrated artist''s life and wor k, enhanced by Venezia''s illustrations and story line. ' [via]
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Henri Matisseby Gilles NeretISBN 3822865354 (3-8228-6535-4)
Hardcover, Taschen America Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henri Matisse'Book summary:The extraordinary significance of the painter and sculptor Henri Matisse in the history of modern art, but also his influence, was no less decisive than that of his main rival, Pablo Picasso. In fact, Matisse's stylistic liberation actually goes one step further in the pursuit of his own personal goal - the perfect synthesis of line and color - by which he sought revolutionary approaches to the great tradition of French painting by drawing upon its classical aspects. For those who wish to know more about this lodestar of modern art and follow the adventurous path of his creative career, this publication is surely the most comprehensive and informative source available. Lavishly illustrated, its authoritative commentaries trace the artist's search for balance, purity and serenity, from the chromatic brilliance of his Fauve period, through his travels, the Orient, geometric synthesis (it was he who introduced Picasso to African art by giving him his first mask), and the odalisques to the final triumph when, at the age of eighty, he invented his gouache cut-outs that culminated in his illustrations for Jazz and allowed him to achieve his goal of sculpting in paint just as a sculptor works in stone. Matisse is widely acknowledged as an artist whose canvases are extremely difficult to reproduce in print. With this in mind, each work presented here has been painstakingly compared with the respective original, in close collaboration with the artist's grandson, Claude Duthuit. The bard of color deserves no less. [via]
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Henri Matisseby Ingrid Schaffner, Abrams, Harry N., StaffISBN 0810958163 (0-8109-5816-3)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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Henri Matisse: A Retrospectiveby Henri Matisse, John Elderfield, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)ISBN 087070432X (0-87070-432-X)
Hardcover, Museum of Modern Art
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Henri Matisse: A Retrospectiveby John ElderfieldISBN 0810961164 (0-8109-6116-4)
Hardcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Henri Matisse: The Early Years in Nice, 1916-1930by Jack Cowart, Dominique FourcadeISBN 0810923661 (0-8109-2366-1)
Softcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Henry Matisse: Drawing With Scissorsby Jane O'ConnorISBN 0613452704 (0-613-45270-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Jazzby Henri Matisse, Sophie Hawkes, Riva CastlemanISBN 080761131X (0-8076-1131-X)
Softcover, Braziller Incorporated, George
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jazz'Book summary:A dazzling combination of colour plates and reflective handwritten thoughts on the nature of art, this si the closest thing to an autobiography that Matisse ever created. It is a syncopated composition of pictures and text that Matisse felt was the visual equivalnet5 of Jazz music. It has been translated from the French by Sophie Hawkes. [via]
The Joy of Life: The Idyllic in French Art, Circa 1900by Margaret WerthISBN 0520221826 (0-520-22182-6)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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A Magical Day With Matisseby Julie Merberg, Suzanne BoberISBN 081183414X (0-8118-3414-X)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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Matisse Storiesby A. S. ByattISBN 067976223X (0-679-76223-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Matisse Stories'Book summary:These three stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal its unexpected proximity to the heart. For if each of A.S. Byatt's narratives is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling--about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may suddenly call forth the deepest reserves of our being. Beautifully written, intensely observed, The Matisse Stories is fiction of spellbinding authority.
"Full of delight and humor...The Matisse Stories is studded with brilliantly apt images and a fine sense for subtleties of conversation and emotion."--San Francisco Chronicle
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Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Matisse Stories: ISBN 0701160888 (0-7011-6088-8)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus - Matisse Stories: ISBN 067976223X (0-679-76223-X)
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Matisseby Gilles NéretISBN 3822820636 (3-8228-2063-6)
Softcover, Taschen America, LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Matisse'Book summary:The extraordinary significance of the painter and sculptor Henri Matisse in the history of modern art, but also his influence, was no less decisive than that of his main rival, Pablo Picasso. In fact, Matisse's stylistic liberation actually goes one step further in the pursuit of his own personal goal - the perfect synthesis of line and color - by which he sought revolutionary approaches to the great tradition of French painting by drawing upon its classical aspects. For those who wish to know more about this lodestar of modern art and follow the adventurous path of his creative career, this publication is surely the most comprehensive and informative source available. Lavishly illustrated, its authoritative commentaries trace the artist's search for balance, purity and serenity, from the chromatic brilliance of his Fauve period, through his travels, the Orient, geometric synthesis (it was he who introduced Picasso to African art by giving him his first mask), and the odalisques to the final triumph when, at the age of eighty, he invented his gouache cut-outs that culminated in his illustrations for Jazz and allowed him to achieve his goal of sculpting in paint just as a sculptor works in stone. Matisse is widely acknowledged as an artist whose canvases are extremely difficult to reproduce in print. With this in mind, each work presented here has been painstakingly compared with the respective original, in close collaboration with the artist's grandson, Claude Duthuit. The bard of color deserves no less. [via]
Matisseby Jean Selz, Crown Art Library StaffISBN 0517883740 (0-517-88374-0)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Matisseby Lawrence GowingISBN 0500201706 (0-500-20170-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Matisseby Antony MasonISBN 0812094263 (0-8120-9426-3)
Softcover, Barrons Juveniles
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Matisse'Book summary:Henri Matisse, who lived from 1869 to 1954, was a painter, sculptor, muralist, and stage set designer. His mature years saw his important works in lithography and the birth of his famous colored paper designs constructed with paste and scissors. [via]
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Matisseby Durozoi GerardISBN 051764794X (0-517-64794-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Matisse: 50 Years of His Graphic Artby William S. LiebermanISBN 0807610224 (0-8076-1022-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Matisse: A Portrait of the Man and His Artby Hayden HerreraISBN 0151581835 (0-15-158183-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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Matisse and Picassoby Yve-Alain BoisISBN 0912804343 (0-912804-34-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Matisse Art Activity Packby Mila BoutanISBN 081181310X (0-8118-1310-X)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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Matisse: From Color to Architectureby Henri Matisse, Deke Dusinberre, Rene Percheron, Christian BrouderISBN 0810955822 (0-8109-5582-2)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Matisse in Morocco: The Paintings and Drawings, 1912-1913by Jack Cowart, John Elderfield, Pierre Schneider, Marina Bessanova, Albert Grigorevich KostenevichISBN 0894681400 (0-89468-140-0)
Softcover, Natl Gallery of Art
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Matisse in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Including Remainder-Interest and Promised Giftsby Henri Matisse, John ElderfieldISBN 0295965983 (0-295-96598-3)
Hardcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Matisse on Artby Henri Matisse, Jack D. FlamISBN 0520200322 (0-520-20032-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Matisse Picassoby Henri Matisse, Kirk Varnedoe, John Elderfield, Pablo Picasso, John Golding, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Anne BaldassariISBN 0870700081 (0-87070-008-1)
Hardcover, Museum of Modern Art
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Matisse Picasso'Book summary:Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso have long been seen as the twin giants of modern art, as polar opposites but also as complementary figures. Between them they are the originators of many of the most significant innovations of 20th-century painting and sculpture, but their relationship has rarely been explored in all of its closeness and complexity. In spite of their initial rivalry, the two masters eventually acknowledged one another as equals, becoming, in their old age, increasingly important to one another both artistically and personally. From the time of their initial encounters in 1906 in Gertrude and Leo Stein's Paris studio until 1917, they individually produced some of the greatest art of the 20th century and maintained an openly competitive relationship brimming with intense innovation. This period saw them create such works as Picasso's majestic "Woman with a Fan" of 1908 and Matisse's great portrait of his wife of 1913. Matisse responds to Synthetic Cubism in his "Piano Lesson" of 1916 and Picasso comes back in turn with a new, more decorative Cubism in "Three Musicians" of 1921. The 20s saw them grow apart, as Matisse moved from Paris to Nice and Picasso became involved with the Surrealists, but the 30s brought them together again, through their sheer fame and devotion to reality-based art. Their story continues until Matisse's death in 1954, when Picasso paid his friend and colleague tribute in his series Women of Algiers, of which he said, "When Matisse died, he left his odalisques to me as a legacy." Matisse Picasso presents the artists' oeuvres in groupings that reveal the affinities but also the extreme contrasts of their artistic visions. Published to accompany the landmark exhibition, a joint effort of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Tate Modern, London; the Raunion des musaes nationaux/Musae Picasso and the Musae national d'art moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Matisse Picasso is the first major examination of the fascinating relationships between their art, their careers, and their lives. Thirty-four essays, each by a member of the exhibition's curatorial team, focus on a particular moment in the artists' evolving relationship. The authors present in-depth analyses of specific aspects of the unique artistic dialogue between Matisse and Picasso as reflected in selected juxtapositions of each artist's works. These texts are accompanied by an introductory history, commentary on the public perception of important artistic relationships, and an extensive chronology. [via]
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Matisse The Master: A Life Of Henri Matisse The Conquest Of Colour 1909-1954by Hilary SpurlingISBN 0679434291 (0-679-43429-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Matisse: The Wonder of Colorby Henri Matisse, Xavier Girard, I. Mark ParisISBN 0810928205 (0-8109-2820-5)
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Matisse, His Art and His Textiles : The Fabric of Dreamsby Royal Academy of Arts StaffISBN 1903973465 (1-903973-46-5)
Hardcover, Royal Academy of Arts
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Matisse, Picasso, Miro--As I Knew Themby Rosamond BernierISBN 0679749411 (0-679-74941-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Matisse, Picasso, Miro--As I Knew Them'Book summary:Rosamond Bernier went to France in 1946 as "Vogue" features editor and stayed there for the next two decades, during which time she formed close and enduring friendships with many of the greatest painters of the 20th century, most particularly Matisse, Picasso and Miro. Reluctant though they were to reveal themselves to outsiders, Ms Bernier had their trust to a remarkable extent and each of them talked to her, as to few others, for hours at a time. From these conversations she gleaned not only a fund of personal and moving reminiscences, but also an understanding of the artists' work, lives and milieu. In this book, Ms Bernier captures the substance of these conversations, interweaving anecdote, description of each man's artistic concerns and photographs. She writes of her exploration of Barcelona with Miro as her guide, and her visit to Matisse when he explained to her, page by page, his illustrations of Mallarme's "Poesies", as well as numerous other memories. [via]
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Plant Drawingsby Henri Matisse, Ellsworth KellyISBN 1584231157 (1-58423-115-7)
Softcover, Gingko Pr Inc
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Painting and Sculpture Collectionby Diana C. Du Pont, San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtISBN 0933920601 (0-933920-60-1)
Softcover, Hudson Hills Press in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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The Sculpture of Matisseby Henri Matisse, Alicia Legg, Walker Art Center, University of California Berkeley, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)ISBN 0870704486 (0-87070-448-6)
Hardcover, Museum of Modern Art
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Side by Sideby Sebastian SmeeISBN 1876631325 (1-876631-32-5)
Hardcover, Duffy & Snellgrove
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The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse The Early Years, 1869-1908by Hilary SpurlingISBN 0375711333 (0-375-71133-3)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse The Early Years, 1869-1908'Book summary:Henri Matisse is one of the masters of twentieth-century art and a household word to millions of people who find joy and meaning in his light-filled, colorful images--yet, despite all the books devoted to his work, the man himself has remained a mystery. Now, in the hands of the superb biographer Hilary Spurling, the unknown Matisse becomes visible at last.
Matisse was born into a family of shopkeepers in 1869, in a gloomy textile town in the north of France. His environment was brightened only by the sumptuous fabrics produced by the local weavers--magnificent brocades and silks that offered Matisse his first vision of light and color, and which later became a familiar motif in his paintings. He did not find his artistic vocation until after leaving school, when he struggled for years with his father, who wanted him to take over the family seed-store. Escaping to Paris, where he was scorned by the French art establishment, Matisse lived for fifteen years in great poverty--an ordeal he shared with other young artists and with Camille Joblaud, the mother of his daughter, Marguerite.
But Matisse never gave up. Painting by painting, he struggled toward the revelation that beckoned to him, learning about color, light, and form from such mentors as Signac, Pissarro, and the Australian painter John Peter Russell, who ruled his own art colony on an island off the coast of Brittany. In 1898, after a dramatic parting from Joblaud, Matisse met and married Amélie Parayre, who became his staunchest ally. She and their two sons, Jean and Pierre, formed with Marguerite his indispensable intimate circle.
From the first day of his wedding trip to Ajaccio in Corsica, Matisse realized that he had found his spiritual home: the south, with its heat, color, and clear light. For years he worked unceasingly toward the style by which we know him now. But in 1902, just as he was on the point of achieving his goals as a painter, he suddenly left Paris with his family for the hometown he detested, and returned to the somber, muted palette he had so recently discarded.
Why did this happen? Art historians have called this regression Matisse's "dark period," but none have ever guessed the reason for it. What Hilary Spurling has uncovered is nothing less than the involvement of Matisse's in-laws, the Parayres, in a monumental scandal which threatened to topple the banking system and government of France. The authorities, reeling from the divisive Dreyfus case, smoothed over the so-called Humbert Affair, and did it so well that the story of this twenty-year scam--and the humiliation and ruin its climax brought down on the unsuspecting Matisse and his family--have been erased from memory until now.
It took many months for Matisse to come to terms with this disgrace, and nearly as long to return to the bold course he had been pursuing before the interruption. What lay ahead were the summers in St-Tropez and Collioure; the outpouring of "Fauve" paintings; Matisse's experiments with sculpture; and the beginnings of acceptance by dealers and collectors, which, by 1908, put his life on a more secure footing.
Hilary Spurling's discovery of the Humbert Affair and its effects on Matisse's health and work is an extraordinary revelation, but it is only one aspect of her achievement. She enters into Matisse's struggle for expression and his tenacious progress from his northern origins to the life-giving light of the Mediterranean with rare sensitivity. She brings to her task an astonishing breadth of knowledge about his family, about fin-de-siècle Paris, the conventional Salon painters who shut their doors on him, his artistic comrades, his early patrons, and his incipient rivalry with Picasso.
In Hilary Spurling, Matisse has found a biographer with a detective's ability to unearth crucial facts, the narrative power of a novelist, and profound empathy for her subject. [via]More editions of The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse The Early Years, 1869-1908:
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Verve: The Ultimate Review of Art and Literatureby Michel AnthoniozISBN 0810917432 (0-8109-1743-2)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Visions of the Modernby John GoldingISBN 0520087925 (0-520-08792-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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When Pigasso Met Mootisseby Nina LadenISBN 0811811212 (0-8118-1121-2)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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The William S. Paley Collectionby William RubinISBN 0870701932 (0-87070-193-2)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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The World of Matisse, 1869-1954by John RussellISBN 0316509418 (0-316-50941-8)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Henri Matisse: Contre Vents Et Mareesby Lydia DelectorskayaISBN 2951005202 (2-9510052-0-2)
Hardcover, Irus et Vincent Hansma
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--L'apparente Facilite-- Henri Matisse: Peintures De 1935-1939by Lydia DelectorskayaISBN 2869410263 (2-86941-026-3)
Hardcover, A. Maeght
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Matisse: Une Seconde Vieby Henri Matisse, Musee national du Luxembourg (France), Louisiana (Museum : Humlebk, Denmark)ISBN 2850259918 (2-85025-991-8)
Hardcover, Hazan
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Matisseby Henri Matisse, Margrit Hahnloser-IngoldISBN 328001784X (3-280-01784-X)
Hardcover, Orell Fussli
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