“There are these gorgeous, sublime images, but there’s also a sense of worry.”
Curator Rebecca Rabinow on Jazz, an illustrated book by Henri Matisse from 1947.
Reading Matisse
Rebecca Rabinow
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Rebecca Rabinow
Former Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Modern Art and Curator in Charge of the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center
Former Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Modern Art and Curator in Charge of the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center
Photography by Anne-Marie Kellen
© 2013 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Art Mentioned
Multiple artists/makers
1947
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