Episode No. 107 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features art historian Serge Guilbaut. 

Guilbaut is the editor of the recently published “Chatting with Henri Matisse: The Lost 1941 Interview.” This week’s show was taped live at Getty Center and published by Getty Publications.

“Chatting with Matisse” is a fascinating book: In 1941 art historian Pierre Courthion conducted an extensive interview with Matisse that was seen at the time as a vital assessment of his career. But just weeks before the book was to come out, Matisse suppressed its publication. Scholars have known about the interview for some time, but it’s never been published, or even widely available, until now. This beautiful new publication includes essays by Guilbaut, Yve-Alain Bois and Laurence Bertrand Dorleac. Chris Miller translated the interview.

Guilbaut is professor emeritus at The University of British Columbia. His previous projects include the book “How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom, and the Cold War.”

Air date: Nov. 21, 2013.