Early in 1945, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) made scissors his chief implement and paper his primary medium. This was a radical reinvention, one born of both physical and artistic necessity.

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Henri Matisse, Christmas Eve (1952). Photo: MoMA. He would produce more than 250 paper cut-outs, some, like The Swimming Pool, spanning whole walls, others designed for a single sheet of paper.

Henri Matisse, Marguerite au chat noir, 1910; Huile sur toile, 94 x 64 cm., Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne / Centre de création industrielle Don de Madame Barbara Duthuit ...

All works by Matisse, Derain, and Kahlo—who died in 1954—are now in the public domain in the United States and countries where the works of individual authorship generally shed their ...