Henri Matisse: La Chapelle De Vence by Soeur Jacques-Marie 1993 SC

Description: Some background: The Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence, often referred to as the Matisse Chapel or the Vence Chapel, is a small Catholic chapel located in the town of Vence on the French Riviera. It was dedicated to the Dominican Order. Grgoire Gardette Editions 1993 - 184 pages. Excellent condition, personal inscription on the cover page from Sister Jacques-Marie to Mme. Paschkoff in 1993. Inscription by Mme. Paschkoff to a friend Edna Johnson in 1996. Includes a French newspaper article regarding the book publication and history. See photos. From 1942 to 1954, Sister Jacques-Marie, initially Monique Bourgeois, recounted her meeting with Henri Matisse, which gave rise to the creation of the Rosary Chapel in Vence. The artist's last and final project, it corresponds to the culmination of his work. Henri Matisse declared: "this work took me four years of exclusive and assiduous work, and it is the result of my entire active life. I consider it, despite all its imperfections, to be my masterpiece." Sister Jacques-Marie recounts the friendship and complicity with the painter over the years, from which emerged the masterpiece that is the Rosary Chapel in Vence. Reproductions of Matisse's drawings, unpublished archive photographs, accompanied by extracts from the painter's correspondence, as well as a preface by the director of the Chteau de Villeneuve (Zia Mirabdolbaghi), and the former curator of the Matisse Museum in Cateau-Cambrsis (Dominique Szymusiak) complete the text.

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