"It is often wrongly said that during this period Matisse stopped painting and did nothing but gouache cut-outs... Well, no, Matisse painted 75 paintings between 1941 and 1954", explains Claudine Grammont, curator of the exhibition "Matisse 1941-1954".
In that period, he also created "more than 230 sheets of cut-out gouached paper", she adds. "In 1950 alone, 40 works were produced. That is a lot for an 80-year-old man."
