The Great Artists series consists of 100 albums of world painting. On the pages of books - biographies of artists, the main milestones of creativity, their role in world culture. Each album has about 50 illustrations. Henri Matisse worked in different genres and types of art, used a variety of techniques. Laconicism of refined artistic means, coloristic harmonies, combining either bright contrasting consonances, or the balance of local large spots and masses of color, serve the main goal of the artist - to convey the pleasure of the sensual beauty of external forms.