
Colour Unbound: Henri Matisse 1941–1954
$106.04
- Hardcover
480 pages
- Release Date
26 July 2026
Summary
Published to accompany the major exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, Colour Unbound reveals the dazzlingly original work of Matisse’s final years.
1941 marked a turning point in the life and work of Henri Matisse. At the age of seventy-two, he underwent major surgery that left him physically fragile. Yet Matisse viewed this moment not as a setback but as an opportunity ‘to make the greatest progress of my life’. From that point until his death in 1954, he …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780500031575 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0500031576 |
| Author: | Yuval Etgar, Popy Venzal, Anne Théry, Catherine de Smet, Alix Agret, Claudine Grammont, Fanny Drugeon, Antoine Compagnon |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Imprint: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 26 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 1.78kg |
| Dimensions: | 42mm x 203mm x 283mm |

Critics Review
What is special, perhaps unique about Matisse he that he physically changed his physical way of art making, in ways that are fully traced in ‘Color Unbound.’ … The essays in the Thames & Hudson exhibition catalogue discuss the implications of [his] novel form of art making… Thanks to the newest printing techniques, Matisse’s late works look glorious. Color Unbound deserves a prize as the most beautiful art book of the year.– “Counterpunch”
Yuval Etgar
Claudine Grammont, formerly director of the Musée Matisse, Nice, is head of the graphic arts department at the Centre Pompidou.
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