Algeria (Biskra) in 1906. He acquired a villa standing in a large garden at
Issy-les-Moulineaux (near Clamart) in 1909. He saw the Moslem Exhibition in
Munich in 1910, visited Spain that winter and Moscow in 1911 and worked in
Morocco during the winters of 1911, 1912 and 1913. He sometimes used his old
studio on the Quai St. Michel in 1914-1916. At the end of 1917 he went to Nice
and worked in rooms at the Hôtel Beau-Rivage. From 1919 to 1922 he spent the
summer months in a villa at Mont Alban and the winters in the Hôtel de la
Mediterranée on the Promenade des Anglais; from there in these years he
visited, and sometimes painted in, his villa at Issy; he also painted at Étretat;
and he visited London (in connection with the Russian ballet Le Chant du
Rossignol for which he had designed the scenery and costumes) in 1920. From
1923 he occupied two upper floors in the Place Charles-Félix overlooking the old
Nice market, the beach and the sea. In 1930 he went to Tahiti and the U.S.A.
and was commissioned to paint murals for the Barnes Foundation at Merion
which he began in Nice the year after. In 1938 he installed himself in a new
suite of rooms, with garden and two aviaries, in the Hôtel Régina at Cimiez
above Nice. In the summer of 1939 he worked for a time at the Hôtel Lutétia
in Paris. In 1943 he moved from the Régina-Cimiez to a villa called Le Rêve
at Vence. He spent part of 1949 in Paris, and was re-installed at the Régina-
Cimiez by December 31 of that year when he celebrated his 80th birthday. He
made the model for the Vence Chapelle-du-Rosaire in his main workrooms at the
Régina-Cimiez; and he died there on November 4, 1954.

The reproductions of pictures selected for this book are arranged in three
groups. The first group (between pp. 80 and 81 ) shows examples of his early
painting in Paris about 1900 (Pls. 1, 2 and 4; cf. p. 49 ), 'Fauve' works done at
Collioure and in Paris between 1905 and 1910 (Colour Plate B, Pls. 5-9, Pls. 11
and 12; cf. pp. 66, 150, 145, 43 and 93 ), his decorative manner in 1907 (Colour
Plate C), a 1909 version of La danse commissioned by Sergei Stchoukine for his
Troubetskoi palace and painted at Issy (Pl. 10, cf. pp. 70, 79, 87, 89, 193 ), a
Moroccan landscape (Pl. 14, cf. pp. 89 and 94 ), pictures painted at Issy in 1911
(Pl. 16), 1913 (Pl. 19, cf. pp. 93 and 148 ) and 1916 (Pl. 18); and a landscape
painted near Issy in 1916 (Pl. 15). Le peintre et son modèle (Pl. 17, cf. pp. 93, 97,
146, 150 ) was produced during his reoccupation of his Quai St. Michel studio, in
1916. The Tête de jeune femme (Pl. 13), was painted from a model called Lorette
(cf. p. 152 ). The nude called Zulma (Pl. 3), in gouache and crayon on cut paper
(cf. p. 195 ), one of his last works, is inserted in this group as a contrast with
Plate 2. In the same way Les coloquintes (Pl. 55), painted in 1916, is contrasted
with a later still life in the third group of plates (between pp. 160 and 161 ).

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