152 pp. Illustrated with 60 full-page duotone plates and 33 tipped-in color plates; original lithograph frontispiece and original cover design by Henri Matisse. 12½x9¾, original wrappers with color cover by Matisse, glassine, chemise, slipcase. No. 1675 of 2850 copies. First Edition, one of only 500 copies in English.

Matisse selected the portraits, wrote the introduction, and designed the book and its color cover.