Matisse 1941-1954 at the Grand Palais, Paris, 24 March to 26 July

In 1941, in his early seventies, Henri Matisse decided to reinvent himself. Confined to a wheelchair while recovering from abdominal cancer surgery, he began cutting sheets of paper coated with brightly coloured gouache into bold geometric shapes, then arranging them into lively compositions that straddled painting and sculpture. This new art form went on to dominate his final years, until his death in 1954 — a period that he called his ‘second life’.

Paris’s Centre Pompidou, which is closed for renovations until 2030, has partnered with the nearby Grand Palais to exhibit more than 230 works from this final flourishing of Matisse’s career. The show is conceived as a journey through the constant metamorphosis of the artist’s studio — or cut-out ‘garden’, as he imagined it. There are key loans coming from the Met, the Hammer Museum, Fondation Beyeler and MoMA, which mounted a blockbuster show on the same theme in 2014-15.