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Item Number: 135467
Title: MATISSE in the Barnes Foundation
Author: Bois, Yve-Alain
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780500239414
Description: New York: Thames and Hudson, 2015. 3 vols. 30cm., hardcover, 824pp., 656 illus., 606 in color. Summary: Matisse in the Barnes Foundation is a vibrant celebration—slip-cased and beautifullyproduced—of the Barnes’s extraordinary Matisse collection; comprised of fifty-nine works from every stage of the artist’s career, it is among the mostimportant in the world. At the heart of the collection are Matisse’s most historically significant paintings,Le Bonheur de vivre, also called The Joy of Life, and The Dance, the monumental muralthat Albert C. Barnes commissioned to fill the lunettes of the Foundation’s maingallery, transforming both the space and the artist’s career. An essay by editorYve-Alain Bois addresses the evolution of The Dance and its role in Matisse’s career. An essay by Karen Butler looks at what Barnes thought of Matisse; ClaudineGrammont considers how and why he collected his work. The works themselves,sumptuously reproduced, are the subjects of interpretive analyses that tell the storiesof their acquisition and address their critical reception. The book includes majorcontributions by Barbara Buckley and Jennifer Mass on the artist’s technique and areport on the latest findings on the pigments used in Le Bonheur de vivre.
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