Matisse's late cut-outs highlighted in Paris retrospective
A Paris exhibition opening next week examines Henri Matisse's final years and his late cut-out works.
A twilight retrospective opening in Paris next week shines a light on the final years of Henri Matisse's artistic life, with a focus on his celebrated cut-outs. Those closing years were marked by the Nazi occupation of France and a brush with death and surgery, which influenced his late output.