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Part of the series Matisse’s Surprises, with John Walsh

Home and Away: Matisse Makes Another Heaven

In the third of a four-part lecture series, art historian John Walsh shows how between the wars Matisse continued experiments adapting Cubist ideas to his recognizable forms. During yearly sojourns in Nice hotels he painted female models, clothed and unclothed, in luminous rooms that became an ideal world for him.

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John Walsh, an independent art historian, was Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum from 1983 until 2000. After graduating from Yale and getting his PhD from Columbia, he worked as a curator at the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and taught art history at Columbia and Harvard. Since he left the Getty he has been teaching part-time at Yale and giving public lectures there. He has previously given lecture series at the Hammer on Vincent Van Gogh and Rembrandt van Rijn.

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