Photo: Sanford Roth / Photo Researchers History / Getty Images. Right: Henri Matisse in his living room at the Villa le Rêve in Vence, France, c. 1948. Photo: Archive Photos / Getty Images.

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Matisse, who was frail and weakened by that point and staying in Vence was oblivious to his daughter’s clandestine activities. However, after months of silence, they were finally reunited in ...

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Matisse was in his 70s when he had his operation for stomach cancer in 1941. He hoped to get a few more years, he told his doctors. He got 13, working vigorously almost until the day he died in 1954.