Matisse in All His Glory

"Once you’ve read the 90,000-word essay in volume one by Yve-Alain Bois, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton who has published a number of illuminating texts on Matisse, as well as the insightful commentaries on all the paintings by independent art historians Claudine Grammont and Karen K. Butler in volumes two and three, you may never see the former Fauve’s art the same way again."