New exhibit of Matisse’s cut-outs shows how artist began ‘painting with scissors’ 120 of Matisse's paper cut-outs -- created between 1936 and 1954 -- have been collected and will be on ...

A new Henri Matisse retrospective in Switzerland ... after undergoing abdominal surgery for cancer, Matisse turned to paper cut-out collages, with the birds and seaweed inspired by the fauna ...

Early in 1945, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) made scissors his chief implement and paper his primary medium. This was a radical reinvention, one born of both physical and artistic necessity.