Matisse first plotted out that painting in scissor-cut paper, full-scale elements that he moved around on the floor to arrive at the final composition. By the 1940s he was making paper collages ...

And it was following surgery that Matisse created one of his most beloved and best-known works. With the help of assistants, he worked from bed, creating cut-paper collages called gouaches decoupes.

When Henri Matisse’s eyesight began to fail, he turned to cut-paper collage, producing “Jazz,” celebrating the other 20th-century art form that employed improvisation and spontaneity as a ...

In scores of these dancing cut-paper collages, Matisse joined a childlike exuberance to his deeply sophisticated sense of form and color to produce some of the most joyous art of his career–and ...

‘Stitched Collage’: Exploring Suranjana Bhattacharja’s threads of resilience Suranjana Bhattacharja's journey into the world of art took a unique turn when she was diagnosed with Dystrophy ...

A new Henri Matisse retrospective in Switzerland offers visitors a rare chance to follow his artistic journey via works from throughout the career of one of modern art’s godfathers. The Fondation ...

Matisse eventually fused the kinetic friction between them in a series of increasingly large, finally monumental collages made by cutting colored paper.

Four years after Matisse embarked upon his cut-paper collages, “Jazz” was published in 1947 by Efstratios T?riade, whose art magazine Verve had already covered the vivid colors and delicate ...

Art exhibition / ‘Stitched Collage’: Exploring Suranjana Bhattacharja’s threads of resilience Suranjana Bhattacharja's journey into the world of art took a unique turn when she was diagnosed ...

A new Henri Matisse retrospective in Switzerland offers visitors a rare chance to follow his artistic journey via works from throughout the career of one of modern art's godfathers.