Chatting With Henri Matisse: The Lost 1941 Interview - Hardcover

Pierre Courthion

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9781849762298: Chatting With Henri Matisse: The Lost 1941 Interview

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ISBN 10: 1849762295 ISBN 13: 9781849762298

Publisher: Tate Publishing, 2013

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In 1941 the Swiss art critic Pierre Courthion interviewed Henri Matisse while the artist was in bed recovering from a serious operation. After months of complicated discussions between them, and just weeks before the book was to come out - the artist even had approved the cover design - Matisse suddenly refused its publication. Taken from a typescript of the interview which resides at the Getty Research Institute, this rich conversation (conducted during the Nazi occupation of France) is published for the first time in this volume, where it appears both in English translation and in the original French version. Matisse unravels memories of his youth and his life as a bohemian student in Gustave Moreau's atelier. He recounts his experience with collectors, including Alfred Barnes. He discusses fame, writers, musicians, politicians, and, most fascinatingly, his travels. With a preface by Claude Duthuit, Matisse's grandson, Chatting with Henri Matisse contains a preface by and essays by Yve-Alain Bois and Laurence Bertrand Dorleac. The book also includes unpublished correspondence and other original documents related to Courthion's interview and abounds with details about avant-garde life, tactics, and artistic creativity in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Review:

"["Chatting with Henri Matisse"] sheds light on [Matisse's] process and his approach to color."--"ArtInfo"

["Chatting with Henri Matisse"] sheds light on [Matisse s] process and his approach to color. "ArtInfo""

An extensive interview in which Henri Matisse freely shares his thoughts on everything from drawing to depression. Guardian"

This important book provides great insight into Matisse as an artist and individual, as well as into [Courthion s] interviewing and editing process. Publishers Weekly"

[A] comprehensively contextualised restoration of this rare and uninhibited testimonial, emerging from a moment that Matisse correspondingly called his resurrection from near-death. Burlington Magazine"

[Chatting with Henri Matisse] sheds light on [Matisse s] process and his approach to color. ArtInfo"

Full of reminiscences, apercus, and surprising revelations from the master. ARTnews"

[These interviews] give valuable insight into a major artist who was not only a painter but a sculptor, set designer and maker of memorable cut-paper collages. South China Morning Post"

"An extensive interview in which Henri Matisse freely shares his thoughts on everything from drawing to depression."--Guardian

"This important book provides great insight into Matisse as an artist and individual, as well as into [Courthion's] interviewing and editing process."--Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

Serge Guilbaut is professor of art history at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, writes extensively on modern and contemporary art.

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