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Henri Matisse was very ill. His creativity was still strong but the graphic techniques that he could still use were limited. He tried flat gouache with pure and bright colors, shaped by cuttings. He said he was a sculptor of colors. In 1943, the publisher Tériade persuaded the artist to prepare a collection of images to be performed with this technique. The project lasted four years and led in 1…