High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Woman In A Purple Coat or The Purple Coat is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1937. It depicts Matisse`s assistant Lydia Delectorskaya. This painting is an example of Henri Matisse`s mature decorative style. Matisse depicts his model and companion of many years, Lydia Delectorskaya, in an exotic morrocan costume, surrounded by a complex of abstract design and exotic color.This is an example of one of the final groups of oil paintings in Matisse`s career, in 1950 he stopped painting oil paintings in favor of creating paper cutouts.