How to read a Matisse

"There are these gorgeous, sublime images, but there's also a sense of worry."

"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.

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Photography by Anne-Marie Kellen

© 2013 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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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

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Jazz, Henri Matisse  French, Pochoir
Multiple artists/makers
1947