Download or read book Matisse in Tahiti written by Paule Laudon and published by Vilo Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1930, aged 60, Henri Matisse travelled to Tahiti on a steamer from San Francisco. The trip had a profound and lasting influence on his work, particularly the late gouache cut-outs; this book gives the reader an intensely personal insight into the mind of Matisse in Tahiti.