This fresh edition of the first volume of our original award-winning XXL book provides a thorough historical context to Matisse''''''''s cut-outs, tracing their roots in his 1930 trip to Tahiti, through to his final years in Nice. It includes many photos of Matisse, some rare images, by Henri Cartier-Bresson and the filmmaker F. W. Murnau and text from Matisse, publisher E. Tériade, the poets Louis Aragon, Henri Michaux, and Pierre Reverdy, and Matisse''''''''s son-in-law Georges Duthuit