This is the sixth title in the highly-successful Anholt's Artists series about great painters. Each book tells the story of real meetings between a world-famous artist and a child who inspired him in his work, with reproductions of some of the artist's most famous works. This book describes the close relationship between Matisse and Monique, a young girl who wants to become a nun. Matisse develops a sketch drawn by Monique into a set of stained-glass windows and starts raising money to build a chapel for the nuns at Vence, in south-west France. Finally one morning when the chapel is finished, Monique sees the special magic of Matisse's design: when the sun's rays creep into the chapel, transforming its black and white interior into a fantastic sea of blue and green light!
ISBN: | 9781847800435 |
Publication date: | 6th August 2015 |
Author: | Laurence Anholt |
Publisher: | Frances Lincoln Children's Books |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 32 pages |
Series: | Anholt's Artists |