Matisse in the Barnes Foundation is a vibrant celebration--slip-cased and beautifully produced--of the Barnes's extraordinary Matisse collection; comprised of fifty-nine works from every stage of the artist's career, it is among the most important in the world.
At the heart of the collection are Matisse's most historically significant paintings, Le Bonheur de vivre, also called The Joy of Life, and The Dance, the monumental mural that Albert...