Femme au fauteuil--Femme en négligé
Painted in Nice, 1920
Oil on canvas
The lively surface and warmly varied palette in Femme au fauteuil--Femme en négligé betoken Matisse's passage from the somber, archly modernist austerity of the work he created in Paris during the First World War to the more sensuously representational style he practiced beginning around 1920, when he was spending part of each year on the Mediterranean C?te d'Azur. Matisse decided in late October 1917 that another cold and dismal winter in wartime Paris was more than he could bear, and he traveled south to the sunny Midi, stopping first at Marseille and then nearby L'Estaque, where he and Marquet had painted two years before. In mid-December he headed on to Nice, a city he had not previously visited. "I left L'Estaque because of the wind, and I had caught bronchitis there," Matisse later recounted. "I came to Nice to cure it, and it rained for a month. Finally I decided to leave. The next day the mistral chased the clouds away and it was beautiful. I decided not to leave Nice, and have stayed there practically the rest of my life" (quoted in J. Cowart, exh. cat., op. cit., 1986, p. 19).
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