Jazz
New York, NY: G. Braziller, 1983. Hardcover. Black clothbound slipcase, clothbound boards with red text on cover and spine. 146 pp. Color and bw illustrations. VG some minor wear to slipcase. Item #211372
ISBN: 9780807610756
"'...send me a white cane,' the dazed Henri Matisse pleaded in March 1944 when he had completed nearly all of Jazz's twenty compositions that he had promised Teriade, the publisher of Verve.
During a prolonged convalescence from a serious operation in 1941, Matisse found that one creative activity he could manage while bedridden was to cut painted paper into compositions, a medium he had first used a decade earlier. Yet the penetrating colors of the cut shapes, juxtaposed to form images nothing first used a decade earlier. Yet the penetrating colors of the cut shapes, juxtaposed to form images nothing less than dazzling, were practically driving him blind. Complaining to Teriade that he needed glasses 'tinted to 70%,' Matisse nevertheless assiduously pursued the application of what was for him a natural tendency to work out an artistic result thorugh the mastery of a relatively mechanical technique." - introduction.
OCLC: 9643828
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