Matisse au Grand Palais – Paris

Coup de Coeur: those who have seen this exibition are blown away!

In the bright light of his last years, Matisse invents a new language: that of cut shapes and pure color. More than 300 paintings, drawings, books and cut-out gouaches retrace, between 1941 and 1954, the journey of an artist free and in perpetual movement.

The exhibition Matisse. 1941–1954 sheds light on the last years of Henri Matisse’s career, between 1941 and 1954, through more than 300 works, paintings, drawings, cut-outs, illustrated books, textiles and stained glass windows, from the collection of the Centre Pompidou and major international loans. It reveals the multidisciplinary dimension of his practice during this period while bringing together an exceptional set of cut-out gouaches.