More than one hundred color plates, accompanied by reactions and comments from critics and contemporaries, record the career of the French sculptor, cut-out artist, and painter of exotic, brightly colored nudes.
Jack D. Flam (2 April 1940 - ) is Professor of Art History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City College of New York and author of Matisse: The Man and His Art (1986) and Matisse: A Retrospective (1990).
From 1984 to 1992, Flam was the art critic of the Wall Street Journal.