Matisse and the Joy of Drawing
Christopher Lloyd
‘Matisse the master of colour also aimed life-long to make drawings “with a large variety of feeling and a minimum of means”. Lloyd unfolds the miracle of his brevity of line — in charcoal, ink, pencil, paint, gouache cut-outs: how so few marks convey such supple, powerful, defining images.’ – Jackie Wullschlager, Best Summer Books of 2002, Financial Times
Christopher Lloyd is an art historian and writer, who worked in the Department of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford from 1968 to 1988. He was appointed Surveyor of The Queen’s Pictures in the British Royal Collection in 1988 and retired from that post in 2005.