Marking the 60 year anniversary of Matisse’s death and the major MOMA exhibit of 2014, this fresh edition of TASCHEN's original prize-winning XL volume provides historical context to the cut-outs, the revolutionary invention of Matisse’s final years. With rare photographs of the artist by Henri Cartier-Bresson and F.W. Murnau, among others, and texts from Matisse, poets like Louis Aragon, and Matisse’s son-in-law, Georges Duthuit.