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.