Traces the development of Matisse's art throughout the course of his sixty-year career, bringing together in a single volume both famous works and lesser-known pieces from the archives of his estate, in a study complemented by firsthand accounts by numerous participants in his Chapel of the Rosary and Le Cateau-Cambrésis projects. 10,000 first printing. Christian Brouder is a researcher at the CNRS, the national organization for scientific research, in Paris.