Henri Matisse used to look out windows a lot. He saw colors. Hilary Spurling, in her great Matisse biography, reported that the French artist once ... of them surpass “Interior at Nice ...

Few have achieved a more luxuriant signature than Henri ... Matisse died at the ripe age of 84, at a time when it could be fairly said that he was—with Picasso—France’s most popular artist.

Barnes (1872-1951) assembled a collection of about 900 paintings—among numerous other objects—a panoply that includes 59 works by Henri ... at three of Matisse’s Nice interiors, painted ...