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The woman at the window by Henri Matisse

The woman at the window by Henri Matisse

For the first time, Matisse arrived in Nice in 1917 and immediately fell in love with this city. The artist was absolutely fascinated by the local light – “soft and thin, despite its brilliance.” Matisse once confessed to one of his friends: “When I realized that I could wake up in the middle of this world, I was ready to die of happiness. Only in Nice, far from Paris, I forget everything, live peacefully and breathe freely” .

Staying in Nice due to a whole period in the works of Matisse – one of the most fruitful. Here he wrote over fifty of his odalisks, as well as a number of home scenes and a series of views from the window, such as The Woman at the Window, 1923-24. He did not have a permanent residence in this city. He changed a lot of hotels, but he especially liked one of them – “Hotel de la Mediterrane on the Cote d’Azur”. “I stayed here for four years,” Matisse recalled, “and I never worked anywhere so easily and freely as in the room of this old Rococo-style hotel.”

He liked the fact that the ceiling in his room was tiled with Italian tiles, and the light through the lowered curtains penetrates the room from below, as if from a theatrical ramp. “It was incredible,” we quote the master again, “that was absurd, and it was amazing.”

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