Square-shaped folder with s-shaped join down the front centre, bound in black and blue fabric. In an interview with Glasgow Print Studio on 14th July 2010, the artist explained, “this is the Sex and Matisse portfolio... I think the Print Studio’s been very good because I’d done the Harlequin series with Paragon Press and I quite fancied doing another suite, because the Harlequin suite was really to do with Picasso and Demoiselles d’Avignon and taking it a bit apart and putting back together again and reconstructing, in a sort of Rake’s Progress [way]. The next stage was to do Matisse...There was a big retrospective in New York, a big fat tome on Matisse came out at the exact same time as Madonna’s book ‘Sex’. So I thought I’d bring them together and do ‘Sex and Matisse’. I haven’t seen Madonna’s book ‘Sex’, I was too embarrassed to buy it. But what was interesting was that there was a Culture Show special type thing when Madonna’s book came out and it was given such a high elevation as a cultural event, that I thought, Wow!”
