Matisse at Home and in the Studio

Lecture Three
Success-and a restless insistence, in the years between the wars, on going his own way-emboldened Henri Matisse to experiment with new styles, including Cubism. We look at his rediscovery of the Riviera, where for a decade he spent half the year portraying the secluded bliss of sunny rooms furnished with patterned fabrics and inhabited by female models, whether clothed or nude.