Preface To Short Story Selection - The Matisse Stories

Part I of Essay
The book that I read by A S Byatt called the Matisse Stories was a trilogy of stories about Matisse’s paintings. The first story took place in a beauty salon where the protagonist, Susannah usually had her hair done. The salon was painted in soft pink colours and Matisse’ ....

Part II of Essay
.... story was about an artistic family and their housekeeper. The mother, Debbie, works for and art magazine and the father, Robin is an artist with his studio upstairs in the house. There was a lot of tension between Robin and Mrs Brown, the housekeeper because Robin was often impatient. He hated the way that Mrs Brown dressed because her colours often clashed and she wore wild homemade outfits. Robin lectured her on colour and would fuss if she moved things in his studio when she cleaned. One day, a woman who ran a local art gallery stopped b ....