[.ca] The Portable Matisse (ISBN 0789308436)

400 masterworks of art:
If you ask who the greatest artists that lived are, you are going to hear Leonardo, Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Picasso, and of course, Matisse. Whether he was painting, drawing, or making a collage, Matisse's work will strike you--move you. And this edition is a nice, inexpensive collection of one of the master's works. There's an informative, well-written introduction and then there are 400 pieces of his art. The reproductions of Matisse's works are pretty good (though some span two pages, which always irritates me since you miss so much in the fold) and this isn't some giant tomb. It's a smallish paperback book you can carry with you on the bus or train or anywhere you wish to look at Matisse's work--even at a Picasso exhibition...