NEW YORK, NY.- Henri Matisse–Writers on Paper: Selected Drawings and Prints from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation is the first exhibition dedicated exclusively to Matisse’s little-known drawings of men. The exhibition, on view at New York University’s Maison Française from Nov. 2 through Dec. 21, includes a selection of intimate drawings and prints of writers, including Matisse’s friends, colleagues, and a young poet and martyr, Roger Bernard, whom Matisse admired. Several of the works in this exhibition, created between 1937 and 1946, are being shown for the first time. “We sincerely hope that this exhibition will be a catalyst for greater appreciation and more extensive study of Matisse’s interaction with the men—writers, musicians, artists, collectors—who embodied European cultural life in the first half of the twentieth century,” said Alessandra Carnielli, exec