Paris’s Modern Art Museum Is the Proud New Owner of 61 Henri Matisse Works
When the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris mounted the exhibition “Matisse and Marguerite: Through Her Father’s Eyes,” the world took note, with feature articles in the Guardian and the Wall Street Journal recounting the life of his eldest daughter, conceived in an affair with one of his models, Caroline Jaoblau. When the show closed over the summer, Barbara Dauphin Duthuit, the wife of Henri Matisse’s grandson, opted to give the museum the 61 works she had l
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