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A Few Arts and Artists Seen around France

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At Louis Vuitton Foundation, was privileged to see this MoMA-owned work (The Red Studio, l'Atelier rouge...) as well as most ot the items Matisse painted within the work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtGiFwAX9q0&list=TLGGquesD7FdOsIyNDA1MjAyNA&t=12s   At Picasso Museum I saw this work of Henri Matisse Marguerite Emilienne Matisse (1894–1982) was the artist’s eldest child, the daughter of his girlfriend and model, Camille Joblaud. Plagued with ill health, Marguerite was only six years old when she developed acute breathing problems that necessitated an emergency tracheotomy.  In the two paintings Matisse created of her, she wears a black neck ribbon to hide her scar. (source  https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/492736#:~:text=Marguerite%20Emilienne%20Matisse%20(1894%E2%80%931982,that%20necessitated%20an%20emergency%20tracheotomy. ) At the Musée de la vie romantique, a special exhibit on the painter Géricault revealed his interest in horses as they were made to