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A new Dominican chapel in the Provengal village of Vence was consecrated last week. Its designer: famed Artist Henri Matisse. Now 81 and too ill to attend the consecration, Matisse sent a characteristic, proudly humble message to the presiding bishop: "This chapel is my masterpiece. I began this work four...
After a lifetime of producing pictures meant to relax the looker-"like a comfortable armchair"-old Modern Henri Matisse is at work finishing his designs for a Dominican chapel in the Provençal village of Vence. Not too far away, at Assy in the French Alps, Père...
As if to prove it last week he was turning his back on his new-found museum home, closing his villa and moving south to the Midi. Like Picasso he had become interested in making pottery. "When I touched the soil, I felt a shock. The earth of the Midi...
As a youth, Henri Matisse was enthralled by Giotto's religious frescoes in the Arena Chapel at Padua. But not until last year, at 78, did Matisse himself turn to religious art; then he began work on the little Dominican chapel that he had planned for the town of...
What Father Couturier could do was partially demonstrated this week in a little church in the village of Assy, which celebrated the formal dedication of two handsome stained-glass windows, portraying Saints Veronica and Martha, by the famed contemporary French painter Georges Rouault. Father Couturier had conceived the idea and...