Henri Matisse
- 1869 - 1954
- Born in 1869, in France

Crédit artiste : © Succession H. Matisse 2024 Crédit photographique : © The Morgan Library & Museum / Art Resource, NY/Scala, Florence
Henri Matisse began experimenting with "paper cut-outs" in the early 1930s for La Danse, the monumental project for the Barnes Foundation. Using scissors enabled Matisse to "draw in colour", or even "carve in colour". Using these gouache-coloured shapes, he studied different compositions by freely repositioning his figures.