Matisse cut shapes out of paper freehand, arranging and rearranging the forms until he was satisfied, then glued the compositions to paper, canvas and board. “Blue Nude (I) 1952.” ...

Composed of paper shapes set out in ravishing color combinations, Matisse’s cut-outs, on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City through Feb. 8, 2015, are stunningly lyrical and uplifting.

Henri Matisse, “The Swimming Pool (La Piscine)” (late summer 1952), maquette for ceramic (realized 1999 and 2005). Gouache on paper, cut and pasted, on painted paper. Overall 73 x 647 inches.

It’s where Matisse’s art lives too. The line in a cutout is achieved by the distinct edge cut between colored shapes or between a shape and the white ground, where one jumps to the other.

The MoMA doesn't have this late-night option often. So why this exhibit? In the 1940s, Matisse went through his "cut outs" period, in which he subverted form by working with jagged pieces of paper.

It takes Buchberg and Hauptman only a few well-chosen selections to chart Matisse's path from early experiments in gouache and cut paper to the first bona fide cut-outs. The task of portioning out ...

In his late sixties, Henri Matisse turned almost exclusively to cut paper as his primary medium as his health prevented him from painting. The artist would cut out varying shapes—from vegetal to ...

An employee poses with French artist Henri Matisse's works at the Tate Modern gallery in London in April. The show, Henri Matisse: the Cut-Outs, displays 100 artworks by Matisse, and will run ...

Those are the cut-paper collages gathered for “Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs,” a completely dazzling show that runs through Feb. 8 at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City.

The show, "Henri Matisse: the Cut-Outs," which runs from Oct. 12 through Feb. 8 at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), includes 100 works from private and public collections, drawings, textiles and ...