‘Matisse and Marguerite: Through Her Father's Eyes' Review: A Model Child
'The painting wants to take me somewhere else,' Henri Matisse told his daughter as he worked on her realistic portrait one winter day at their home on the Quai Saint-Michel in Paris. 'Do you feel up for it?' The 20-year-old Marguerite, who had been posing regularly for her father since she was 12, consented, and Matisse began to transform the work. He divided Marguerite's face into geometric shapes with pink and black stripes. He covered her nose with a vertical black beam that divided the upper half of the canvas, and added a block of white to her left cheek to suggest a shaft of light.
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