A children's book published to accompany what is certain to be a blockbuster exhibition, Matisse: The Cut-Outs, showing at Tate Modern from 17 April to 7 September 2014 and thereafter at The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Samantha Friedman is an assistant curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. She is a contributing author of many books on art.

Cristina Amodeo is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Milan, Italy.

Henri Matisse (1869-1954), one of modern art's most important figures, was a painter, draftsman, sculptor, and printmaker who began creating paper cutouts in the 1940s.