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How working in hotels led Henri Matisse and Ian Wallace to rediscover the intoxicating purity of light. Christmas 1917: Elsewhere in France, war was raging, but not in Nice, where Henri Matisse had checked into the Hôtel Beau-Rivage. A few years earlier, the painter had been turned down for military service on the grounds of poor health.
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