Interview with Henri Matisse (transcript), 1951 April 20.

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Interview with Henri Matisse (transcript), 1951 April 20.

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Transcript of a radio interview with Matisse mostly discussing the murals and stained glass designed for the Chapelle du Rosaire in Vence, completed in 1951. The questions and commentary are in English, while Matisse's replies are in French.

5 pp.

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Matisse was born in 1869 to generations of weavers in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, a northern French town whose woolen mills constituted the main industry. He was raised in nearby Bohain, famous for its luxury fabrics. This early exposure to textiles would shape his visual language: examples from his own collection of carpets and cloths from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East would deeply inform his sense of color and pattern and appear in his compositions. Taking up painting after first studyin...

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