Co-organized by the Musée Matisse Nice and the Baltimore Museum of Art, the exhibition sheds light on the Stations of the Cross created by Henri Matisse for the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence and retraces its genesis. While the chapel has been the subject of numerous publications, the Stations of the Cross has inspired only a handful of studies, despite being a monumental ceramic panel. Radically different from the chapel’s other decorations, as well as from Matisse’s pictorial production as a whole, this work stands out as unique—one for which the artist produced an exceptional number of sketches and preparatory studies.

The exhibition brings together three groups of drawings—held at the Musée Matisse in Nice, the Chapel of the Rosary, and in private collections—a total of 84 works, complemented by archival materials tracing the project’s evolution from the first ideas to its final realization.