40 matisse cut outs BR-2-5 and designed in Prague by

and designed in Prague by locals

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40 matisse cut outs BR-2-5 and designed in Prague byToward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbrush for long. In this late phase of his life he was almost 80 years of age he developed the technique of "carving into color," creating bright, bold paper cut outs. Though dismissed by some contemporary critics as the folly of a senile old man, these gouaches decoupees (gouache cut outs) in fact represented