Matisse’s final masterpieces on show at Paris expo

The final years of Henri Matisse’s artistic life, marked by the Nazi occupation of France and a brush with death and surgery, is lighting up a twilight retrospective in Paris. The Grand Palais in Paris is presenting a seminal series by the late French master, such as Blue Nudes , Jazz or the monumental La Gerbe ( The Sheaf ), revealing the ageing painter’s