Blue Nudes - Towards the end of his life, after undergoing abdominal surgery for cancer, Matisse turned to paper cut-out collages, with the birds and seaweed inspired by the fauna and flora he ...

It has that kind of naturalness. But then you look more closely at how it was made — what precise shapes Matisse cut the colored paper into and exactly how they have been arranged to suggest ...

It's a difficult question, which Matisse's paper cut-outs will undoubtedly help to answer. Nathaniel Herzberg Translation of an original article published in French on lemonde.fr; the publisher ...