MatisseA major reassessment of a critical moment in the work of one of the 20th centurys most important artists The works that Henri Matisse (18691954) executed between late 1913 and 1917 are among his most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic. Often sharply composed, heavily reworked, and dominated by the colors black and gray, these compositions are rigorously abstracted and purged of nearly all descriptive detail. Although they have typically been