Although his style and medium adapted throughout his lifetime, Matisse is best known for his expressiveness of color. He began to create paper cut collage in the 1940s, focusing on the use of color and abstraction. Untitled is an image which repeats itself. Matisse probably cut out the leaf-like form from blue paper and added it atop the black and yellow; he then placed bright orange paper under the original blue negatively cut out paper.

Henri Matisse was born in 1869 in Le Cateau-Cambresis, France,  Although he studied to become a lawyer in 1997, he began drawing, while confined to his bed during an illness.  Matisse began studying are in 1891 at the Academie Julian and a year later, at Ecole Beaux-Arts.  Matisse was the leader of the Fauves and exhibited with them in 1905.  The use of bold colors and intense brushstrokes were characteristic of his works at that time. Although his style and medium adapted throughout his lifetime, he is best known for his expressiveness of color.  In 1925 Matisse was given the French Legion of Honor award.  In 1941, he was again bed ridden and unable to stand at his easel.  He began to create paper cut collge, focusing on the use of color and abstraction. Matisse died in 1954 in Nice.

Jacque Lipschitz was among the foremost 20th-century Cubist sculptors. Yet, this print offers his work in another medium. Prints by 12 different internationally renowned artists comprise the Flight Portfolio themed around the plights of refugees and the hope of a new life. Lipschitz’s complex lithograph uses nine colors to convey what appears to be a figure lifting another figure which has caught fire. This work filled with extreme pain and suffering could symbolize the artist’s anguish and emotions over the events of World War II.

Jacques Lipschitz was born in Druskieniki, Lithuania, in 1891.   He moved to Paris in 1909, studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Academie Julian.  Lipschitz worked in the cubist style during the 1910s, while in Paris.  In 1925, he began to create more abstract works, which were inspired by African art.  He moved to America in 1941.  After World War II, his feelings of the last ten years were expressed in the pathos of his work.  Lipschitz died in Capri in 1973.