MATISSE HENRI: (1869-1954) French Artist. An excellent signed and inscribed programme, 32 pages, 4to...

MATISSE HENRI: (1869-1954) French Artist. An excellent signed and inscribed programme, 32 pages, 4to...

MATISSE HENRI: (1869-1954) French Artist. An excellent signed and inscribed programme, 32 pages, 4to, Vence, July-August 1951, in French. Signed to the title page `a M. Wheeler, cordialement H. Matisse´. The exhibition programme is entitled `L´Art Sacré´, (`Sacred Art´), relates to the Vence Chapel, and contains over thirty photographs showing the chapel, Matisse´s works, and few showing the French painter at Vence. Covers bounded with brown lace. VG The chapel at Vence is the Chapelle du Rosaire, a village between Nice and Antibes in the south of France. He worked on the chapel project using the cut-out method from 1948 to 1951. Matisse was diagnosed with abdominal cancer in 1941 and surgery left him chair and bed bound. Painting and sculpture became almost impossible physical challenges which made him turn to creating cut paper collages and decoupages with the help of assistants. His closest collaborator was Monique Bourgeois, a student nurse who helped Matisse after his surgery, also his model, who became a nun in 1946, and the reason of this chapel work by Matisse.