The Matisse Stories

FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, APRIL 1996

Copyright © 1993 by A. S. Byatt

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Artists Rights Society (ARS),

New York, for permission to reprint the following three black-and-white line drawings by Henri Matisse : La Chevelure, Nymphe et faune, and L’Artiste et le modèle reflétés dans le miroir. Copyright © 1995

Succession H. Matisse, Paris/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Random House edition as follows:

Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)

The Matisse stories/A. S. Byatt

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-48804-6

1. Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954. I. Title.

PR6052.Y2M37 1993

823′.914—dc20 94-46131

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