Intrigued by the discrepancy between the attention Matisse devoted to his Stations of the Cross mural in the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence and the paucity of commentaries it elicited, Yve-Alain Bois, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, mounted an exhibition dedicated to the elaboration of this work.
In this public lecture, held at the Institute on May 5, 2017,
Yve-Alain Bois, Professor in the School of Historical Studies,
focuses on Matisse's use of the bamboo stick in large-scale works
and the bodily conception of scale it entails. In a...
Thames & Hudson has published Matisse in the Barnes Foundation
edited by Yve-Alain Bois, Professor in
the School of Historical Studies. The Barnes Foundation's Matisse
collection, comprised of fifty-nine works from every stage of the
artist’s career...
