In September 1940, less than three months after Paris had surrendered to Hitler’s armies, artist Henri Matisse ... painter himself said that these Nice interiors are suffused with sublimated ...

Henri Matisse used to look out windows ... Very few of them surpass “Interior at Nice,” on loan to St. Louis from the Art Institute of Chicago. The gold-on-tan-and-gray walls of the hotel ...

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 ...