until Sunday September 07 2014
Tate Modern
T : +44 (0)207 887 8888
Bankside
SE1 9TG London
United Kingdom
Tate Modern’s major exhibition, Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs", is the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to the artist’s paper cut-outs made between 1943 and 1954. It brings together around 120 works, many seen together for the first time, in a groundbreaking reassessment of Matisse’s colourful and innovative final works.
The exhibition re-examines the cut-outs in terms of the methods and materials that Matisse used, and their double lives, first as contingent and mutable in the studio and ultimately as permanent works through mounting and framing. The exhibition highlights the tensions in the works between finish and process; fine art and decoration; contemplation and utility; and drawing and colour.
