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Interior with Eggplants. ( 1911). Tempera, 82¾″ x 96⅛″. Musée de Peinture
et de Sculpture, Grenoble.

is a sign of happiness. Matisse had not heard of this until 1952 when Jean Leymarie, the
curator of the Grenoble museum, informed him of it. 3 Matisse expressed pleasure
at having discovered, by chance or by instinct, this bit of ancient Chinese lore, and agreed
that in concept and idiom the Grenoble picture was prophetic of the art of his old age.

Matisse's first known use of scissors was in 1931, at the age of sixty-two, when he under-
took the important decorations for Dr. Albert C. Barnes's gallery in Merion, Pennsylvania.
As a means of experimentation in the placement of forms and in linear and voluminous

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3 Jean Leymarie, "Les grandes gouaches découpées de Matisse à la Kunsthalle de Berne," Quadrum VII,
Brussels, 1959.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Last Works of Henri Matisse: Large Cut Gouaches. Contributors: Monroe Wheeler - author. Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Place of Publication: Garden City, NY. Publication Year: 1961. Page Number: 8.
    
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