He had been seduced, transported, dazzled by the French Riviera sun. His first stay in Nice in the 1930s, made one of the greatest masters of modernity, Henri Matisse, settle and spend the rest of his days here.
There'd be tons of books to write about Ben. As a man, as an artist. A truly unique creator who, in the 1960s, shook up all the fashion and principles of the so-called art society, giving a radically new impetus to contemporary art.
