The French Riviera's characteristic Mediterranean architecture with its light facades and its captivating coastal scenery ...

The paintings are modest — but momentous. Matisse had grown up in a weaving ... the sea from the series of hotel rooms he occupied in Nice from about 1917 can seem like a slackening off, an ...

Matisse meant his art to soothe, not shock ... In his town house in Nice, he painted from his bed or wheelchair, surrounded by women—his beautiful secretary, two models, a nurse, cook and ...

Visitors primarily appreciate the aesthetics of Musée Matisse, an airy 17th-century ... artifacts that once belonged to the artist, who settled in Nice in 1917. Keep in mind: Some of the ...