About the Author

Jack Flam is Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, He has published numerous studies of Matisse as well as other artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His Matisse: The Man and His Art, 1869-1918 (1985) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Doreen Bolger is Director of the Baltmore Museum of Art.