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ISBN: 9780500201701 - Matisse
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Matisse

Sir Lawrence Gowing

ISBN: 9780500201701
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Thames & Hudson Ltd
Edition: illustrated edition


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Examines Matisse's impact on modern art as well as examining his career, techniques, aesthetics, and stages of artistic development.

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In this richly illustrated study, Lawrence Gowing takes us through Matisse's career, assessing the lifetime of arduous labor that culminated in the apparent spontaneity of his color and ease of his imagery, and in the formidable intelligence of his compositions. The detailed discussion of individual works reveals the subtlety and complexity of one of the greatest masters of our time. 191 illus., 32 in color.
 
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