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The Last Works of Henri Matisse
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1958. Illustrated with many folding illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers, in original dust jacket. Condition : tear with loss to head of spine, small closed tears to heads of inner flaps. matisse's famous cut-outs. Reverdy, an influential French cubist poet, was the publisher of the important dadaist/surrealist journal Nord-Sud , and at one time was a roommate of Picasso. His first collaboration with Matisse came in 1918 when he published Les Jockeys Camoufles, Trois Poemes par Monsieur Pierre Reverdy . Testament to a lifelong friendship, this volume originally constituted two important numbers of Verve, which reproduced 40 lithographs after cut-outs by Matisse.