Matisse and Picasso
Regular price £55.00A portrait of the art, rivalry, and friendship between Matisse and Picasso
Fiercely competitive, Matisse and Picasso engaged in one of the most formidable creative dialogues in the history of art. This volume portrays the intertwined evolution of the two giants of modern art as if it were an ongoing chess game between two masters. They engaged in extraordinarily powerful debates during their early careers, and their unique partnership blossomed from the 1930s on, when the artists, who had grown distant for more than a decade, reconnected.
They developed a mutual creative appreciation, which they translated into their own work. During the war years, their geographic separation only spurred them to think even more about each other’s work; their artistic sparring resumed. In the postwar period―the most poignant in their long friendship―they often met and exhibited together. But Picasso’s greatest tribute to Matisse would come in the series of paintings he realized shortly after his friend’s death; the long rivalry transformed into a deep and melancholic mourning.
Beautifully reproduced, including two-color sprayed page edges, with historical demonstration supported by striking visual juxtapositions of works by the two artists, this study is a major contribution to the history of twentieth-century art.
Details
- Author: Yve-Alain Blois
- Hardcover: 216 pages | 284 colour illustrations
- Date published: September 2026
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9782080151766
- Product Dimensions: 28.6 x 23.2 cm
