along with pertinent bibliographic databases such as RLIN, SCIPIO, and OCLC. The
work attempts to be as comprehensive as possible, within time, travel, budget, and length
constraints. It should not, however, be considered exhaustive.

This guide is intended as a briefly and partially annotated bibliography, not as a
critical one. Annotations are provided for entries where titles give incomplete or unclear
information about works and their content. Monographs and dissertations are annotated
with more regularity than periodical articles. Annotations are of necessity brief and are
intended only to note the subject matter discussed, the general orientation, or the
conclusion of the study. Obviously, a few sentences can hardly hope to represent fairly
and adequately even a short article, to say nothing of a major book.

My apologies to authors who may feel that the annotations have misrepresented,
misconstrued, misunderstood, or even distorted their work in this process of radical
condensation. My own opinion and critical judgment have in no case been conscious
criteria for inclusion or exclusion. Foreign language titles abound, particularly in French.
Since a reading knowledge of French is essential for serious Matisse research, with few
exceptions only titles in other foreign languages are occasionally translated.

The Secondary Bibliography is divided into sections, accessible by the Contents and
the Subject Index. Entries are numbered consecutively throughout. In every section,
monographs are listed first, followed by periodical articles. Within each section, citations
are listed alphabetically by author or chronologically, when noted. Anonymous works are
alphabetized by title. When several entries are credited to the same author, they are
arranged chronologically. Authors whose surnames have changed and those who have
rearranged their given names or initials are generally listed as they appear in print. They
may, therefore, be found in the Personal Names Index in more than one location.

To some degree any system of classification is arbitrary, and this one is no
exception. I have attempted to organize a great variety of material under headings most
useful for art historical study rather than placing them in what at first may have seemed
a most appropriate place. This arrangement is not always satisfactory. Hopefully, users
perplexed by omissions in certain sections will be compensated by finding titles that they
were unaware of in other sections.

Ideally, some titles should be listed in more than one section. In most instances,
however, this was not practical. The division of the Secondary Bibliography into many
categories is intended to serve as a simply subject index. Citations in the "Mentions of
Henri Matisse" section concentrate on major sources deemed historically significant.
These entries are interesting as a reflection of the critical evaluation of Matisse at the time
of SYSTEMation. The Exhibitions section contains information and publications about
Matisse exhibitions, including a few sales catalogues, arranged chronologically in
individual and group exhibition categories.

The most effective use of the Secondary Bibliography is by means of the Contents
and the Art Works, Personal Names, and Subject Indexes. Entries are indexed with
reference to their citation numbers. Particular publications may be located in the Personal
Names Index under the author or any other persons associated with the work.

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