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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Matisse in the Barnes Foundation
| Publisher | Thames & Hudson |
| Year | 2015 |
| Cover | Cloth in decorative slipcase |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-0-500-23941-4 |
| Pages | 894 |
| Weight | 7378 g |
| More | |
| Author(s) | Yve-Alain Bois |
| Contributors | Claudine Grammont, Karen Butler et al. |
| Article ID | art-31868 |
»Matisse in the Barnes Foundation« is a vibrant celebration slip-cased and beautifully produced publication of the Barnes's extraordinary Matisse collection; comprised of fifty-nine works from every stage of the artist‘s career, it is among the most important in the world.
At the heart of the collection are Matisse‘s most historically significant paintings, Le Bonheur de vivre, also called The Joy of Life, and The Dance, the monumental mural that Albert C. Barnes commissioned to fill the lunettes of the Foundation‘s main gallery, transforming both the space and the artist‘s career. An essay by editor Yve-Alain Bois addresses the evolution of The Dance and its role in Matisse‘s career. An essay by Karen Butler looks at what Barnes thought of Matisse; Claudine Grammont considers how and why he collected his work.
The works themselves, sumptuously reproduced, are the subjects of interpretive analyses that tell the stories of their acquisition and address their critical reception.
The book includes major contributions by Barbara Buckley and Jennifer Mass on the artist‘s technique and a report on the latest findings on the pigments used in Le Bonheur de vivre.
