Some of their earlier paintings, like Matisse’s portrait of Marguerite, had a paper cutout look. And Picasso’s collaborations with Braque involved cutting and pasting paper in Cubist collages.

Over the next eight years Matisse gradually abandoned easel painting, experimenting with prints, inventing cut-paper techniques and working on large-scale decorative murals, until the advent of a ...

So he began cutting abstract forms from sheets of paper that had been painted with single flat hues of gouache—a practice Matisse had invented in 1930 and that he called “drawing with scissors.” ...

The house said the "visionary" Weinbergs "assembled one of Europe's most distinguished collections over the past 50 years." ...

Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs is on at the Tate Modern from Thursday 17 April until Sunday 7 September 2014 ...