At the Musée Matisse in Nice, the painter's 'Stations of the Cross' receives new light

The exhibition devoted to Henri Matisse's mural work – the artist's least loved but also the least studied creation – that ...
Los Angeles Times

Sister Jacques-Marie, 84; Inspired Henri Matisse to Design Famous Chapel

Sister Jacques-Marie, a Dominican nun whose friendship with artist Henri Matisse led him to create the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence, France, died Monday. She was 84, according to Barbara Freed, a ...
The Boston Globe

Matisse, Cocteau made canvases of two chapels

VENCE, France - Regardless of our religious inclinations, when we travel, we wander through grand cathedrals and mosques, sometimes as though they were museums, awestruck by the light, the smell of ...
Yahoo

There’s more to the French Riviera than Nice or Cannes

Quiet, unspoiled, and often overlooked — welcome to the softer side of the French Riviera. Vence carries the artistic legacy of Matisse and Chagall. La Turbie still bears the weight of Roman ambition, ...
Variety

A Model for Matisse

A lilting portrait of the most appealing French religious figure since Joan of Arc gave way to the Singing Nun, "A Model for Matisse" highlights Sister Jacques-Marie's chaste but powerful influence on ...
Sydney Morning Herald

Matisse’s self-described ‘masterpiece’ isn’t much to look at – at first

The sorrow of the king (La tristesse du roi), 1952 by Henri Matisse.Credit: Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Philippe Migeat / Dist RMN-GP The building Henri Matisse called his “masterpiece” is in Vence, a ...
The Daily Telegraph

How Henri Matisse created his masterpiece

Matisse was aware that the cactuses of Vence produced red flowers as well as yellow, but by this stage he had decided to eliminate red almost entirely from the chapel, probably because he felt that ...