Woman in a Purple Coat, 1937
Woman in a Purple Coat, 1937
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Lydia Delectorskaya, Matisse's model for Woman in a Purple Coat and caretaker in his final years, was a Russian from Siberia who fled from Russia during the 1917 revolution, and who on her own account said she was much more different than the other models he used with their dark eyes, black hair and olive complexions. She had long golden hair, blue eyes, fair skin, for which Matisse approved of. "The look of an ice princess" as Matisse referred to her as. When their paths crossed in Nice, France; Lydia was penniless at the age of 25 and Matisse a well-known artist of 65. He was nice to her and never asked her to pose nude, which she had respected him for. During a brief rivalry with Matisse's wife where she accused of Matisse sleeping with Lydia, Lydia was fired from being his model. But when his wife left him shortly after, still not believing him when he said he had not committed adultery, he rehired Lydia as his assistant in his studio.
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Size: Various Sizes AvailableMedium: Oil on canvasType: ReproductionArtist: Henri MatisseDelivery Time: 14-21 daysItem #: MATISSE-025Woman in a Purple Coat, 1937 by Henri Matisse can be reproduced with the same emotions of the original masterpiece. In our in-house studio artists carefully recreate the painting detail-by-detail, colour-by-colour to near perfection.
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