An account of Henri Matisse's activity as a maker of portraits and self-portraits. The author considers the transaction that produces a portrait - a transaction between the artist and the sitter that is social as much as artistic - and investigates the social contexts of Matisse's sitters.
- ISBN10 0300081006
- ISBN13 9780300081008
- Publish Date 11 October 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 October 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English