{"product_id":"chatting-with-henri-matisse-the-lost-1941-interview-9781606061299","title":"Chatting with Henri Matisse: The Lost 1941 Interview","description":"\u003cp\u003eA major interview with Matisse published here for the first time. In 1941 the Swiss art critic Pierre Courthion interviewed Henri Matisse while the artist was in bed recovering from a serious operation. It was an extensive interview  seen at the time as a vital assessment of Matisses career and set to be published by Albert Skiras then newly established Swiss press. After months of complicated discussions between Courthion and Matisse  and just weeks before the book was to come outthe artist even had approved the cover designMatisse suddenly refused its publication. A typescript of the interview now resides in Courthions papers at the Getty Research Institute. This rich conversation  conducted during the Nazi occupation of France  is published for the first time in this volume  where it appears both in English translation and in the original French version. Matisse unravels memories of his youth and his life as a bohemian student in Gustave Moreaus atelier. He recounts his experience with collectors  including Alfred Barnes. He discusses fame  writers  musicians  politicians  and  most fascinatingly  his travels. Chatting with Henri Matisse  introduced by Serge Guilbaut  contains a preface by Claude Duthuit  Matisses grandson  and essays by Yve-Alain Bois and Laurence Bertrand Dorlac. The book includes unpublished correspondence and other original documents related to Courthions interview and abounds with details about avant-garde life  tactics  and artistic creativity in the first half of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652506378293,"sku":"ByrdShop_1606061291","price":49.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781606061299.jpg?v=1781851806","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/chatting-with-henri-matisse-the-lost-1941-interview-9781606061299","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}