After being introduced by Gertrude Stein in 1906, Matisse and Picasso spent decades exchanging gifts, ideas, and letters.

So he began cutting abstract forms from sheets of paper that had been painted with single flat hues of gouache—a practice Matisse had invented in 1930 and that he called “drawing with scissors.” ...

The exhibition, open until January 12th, brings together 33 out of the 84 sculptures created by Matisse throughout his life, along with two sculptures by Aristide Maillol, drawings, lithographs ...