Author(s): Laurence Anholt
No. of Pages: 32 pages
Date Published: 06 Aug 2015
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
Format: Paperback | 32 pages
Dimensions: 230 x 290 x 2mm | 172g
Language: English
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Edition:
Illustrations: w. numerous col. ill.

This is the sixth title in the highly-successful Anholt's Artists series about great painters. Each book tells the story of real meetings between a world-famous artist and a child who inspired him in his work, with reproductions of some of the artist's most famous works. This book describes the close relationship between Matisse and Monique, a young girl who wants to become a nun. Matisse develops a sketch drawn by Monique into a set of stained-glass windows and starts raising money to build a chapel for the nuns at Vence, in south-west France. Finally one morning when the chapel is finished, Monique sees the special magic of Matisse's design: when the sun's rays creep into the chapel, transforming its black and white interior into a fantastic sea of blue and green light!