Henri MATISSE 'TAHITI' PrintA high quality reproduction, from the archives of Galerie Maeght, of the original work 'Tahiti' by Henri Matisse. Henri Matisse was a French painter, paper artist and sculptor and one of the most important and influential artists in the 20th century. In the late 1940s, Henri Matisse turned almost exclusively to cut paper as his primary medium, and scissors as his chief implement, introducing a radically new operation that came to be called a cut out.