Publications by tag: матисс

If we try to make an ideal life-long tourist route for an artist, based on biographies of the XIX-XX centuries, there will be several mandatory destinations. In order to study painting it is necessary to go to Paris, if you want to gain experience – go to Italy, and when the time comes for some drastic changes – it's urgent to go to Africa. Why were European artists (and writers, by the way) so…

The famous writer, the author of "The Moon and Sixpence" novel, was at the same time a passionate art collector. The impressive collection of artworks by Renoir, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Matisse, Bonnard, Picasso and Léger was collected by Maugham purely for his own pleasure and decorated his luxurious villa on the French Riviera.