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Book Description: Few artists have explored genres and techniques with such curiosity and pleasure as Henri Matisse, whose fascination with the relationship between interior and exterior forms occupied him throughout his career. In the early 1950s, he chose to dedicate his last years to the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence and the nursery school in his hometown of Le Cateau Cambr sis, both in the South of France. These sites represent a culmination of all Matisse's earlier visual and spatial explorations. This book sheds new light on the development of Matisse's oeuvre, which spans some 60 years. Lavishly illustrated with almost 400 images, this deluxe volume includes beautiful reproductions of the artist's most famous paintings paired with lesser known documents and photographs culled from the archives of his estate. The authors also gathered first hand accounts related by numerous participants in the Vence and Le Cateau projects. The result is a fascinating, almost day to day look at Matisse's process as he created these works, and an intimate portrait of both the artist and the man. AUTHOR BIO: The late Ren Percheron was head of the museum of national antique art in Saint Germain en Laye, France, and a lecturer on the history of art and photography. Christian Brouder is a researcher at CNRS, the national organization for scientific research in Paris.

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