Henri Matisse, who is 79 this week, permits few visitors. When he goes so far as to let a reporter inside his studio in the Riviera hill town of Vence, the old man is apt to have a surprise up his sleeve. This week in the New York Times Sunday magazine, one of Matisse's most recent visitors, Joseph A. Barry, reported his latest. Matisse, past master of charm and cheerfulness, was designing a chapel.
In the past, Matisse's studio had always been as gay as a toy shop, sparkling with pinned-up scraps of colored paper, polished brass bric-a-brac and bright swatches of...
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