Heading: (Matisse, Henri)
Author: Reverdy, Pierre & Georges Duthuit
Title: The Last Works of Henri Matisse
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Harcourt, Brace and Company
Date Published: [1958]
Description:

Illustrated with color lithograph plates of Matisse's cut-outs (some folding) and heliogravures in black and white of related drawings. 35.7x26 cm. (14x10¼"), original orange boards with design by Matisse, illustrated dust jacket.

This copy is lacking 4 of the color lithographs. The first lithographic plates were printed in 1954 under Matisse's direction, but publication was not finished until 1958, four years after his death. Constitutes Verve nos. 35/36 in the French Edition.

Jacket price-clipped with fair amount of soiling, chips and closed tears to edges with numerous clear tape repairs, closed tears at spine folds with tape repairs on backside, large piece lacking to top edge at spine head; board with rubbing to extremities, corner tips worn, some slitting to paper and glue repairs at spine with some loss at spine head; front hinge cracking at title page; lacking pp. 151-158, including 4 color lithographs; overall good volume in like jacket.