Di San Lazzaro, G. (editor)
Homage to Henri Matisse
New York, Tudor Publishing Co, 1970. Hardcover. Royal blue cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, yellow and blue dust jacket, 126 pp. 150 BW illus. & 32 color plates, one BW linocut. Special issue of the Review XXe Siecle, honoring French painter Henri Matisse (1869-1954). With illustrated contributions by G. Di San Lazzaro, Georges Rouault, Jean Cassou, Roger Fry, Jean Leymarie, Gotthard Jedlicka, Pierre Courthion, Jean Guichard-Meili, Andre Verdet, Georges Duthuit, Yvon Taillandier, Pierre Volboudt, and Herbert Read, with some memoirs by Matisse himself. A BW linocut print is bound in, next to page 112. Nice! Contents as follows: Homage to Henri Matisse / San Lazzaro -- A painter's notes / Henri Matisse -- How the critics received him -- Evocation of Matisse / George Rouault -- The painter of accuracy / Jean Cassou -- Matisse and the renewal of plastic expression / Roger Fry -- The two horizons of Henri Matisse / Jean Leymarie -- Fauvism / Gotthard Jedlicka -- 1907: the painter of "Intimate Immensity" / Jean-Louis Ferrier -- Matisse and the Dance / Pierre Courthion -- The conquest of light / Pierre Courthion -- The odalisques / Jean Guichard-Meili -- The Vence Chapel, culmination of a life / Henri Matisse -- Architecture and decoration / André Verdet -- The final stage: the painted paper cutouts / Georges Duthuit -- Matisse and the prehistory of happiness / Yvon Taillandier -- Line in search of form / Pierre Volboudt -- Azure hours / André Verdet -- The feminine ideal of a lord / San Lazzaro -- The sculptor / Herbert Read. VG/VG .

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