Interpreting Matisse Picasso »

When Matisse and Picasso first met in the spring of 1906 Matisse was already crowned áKing of the Fauves' and Picasso was poised to challenge for the leadership of the avant-garde. Although the two artists never became intimate friends, they were in regular contact for the last twenty years of Matisse's life, their friendship becoming much warmer when Picasso moved to the South of France in 1946. This illustrated book provides an account of the evolving personal relationship of the two artists, and in doing so it challenges the popular notion of intense rivalry and personal antipathy, revealing instead the evidence of their mutual respect and admiration.