"The Musee d'Art Moderne in Paris has received an extraordinarily generous donation of 61 works by Henri Matisse that have been kept in the artist's family. Most of the donated art which includes paintings, drawings, etchings, lithographs and a sculpture features the painter's daughter Marguerite. The donation, described by the museum as exceptional and historic, was made by Barbara Dauphin Duthuit, the wife of Matisse's grandson Claude, who died in 2011 in New York."
"Aged six, Marguerite contracted diphtheria and had an emergency tracheotomy. For many years she would disguise the scar with high-necked blouses or ribbons, as the portraits show, until she underwent an operation to repair it when she was 26. Although her health remained fragile, Marguerite joined the French resistance during the second world war, was tortured by the Gestapo, and was threatened with deportation to a Nazi concentration camp."
The Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris received a donation of 61 works by Henri Matisse from the artist's family, including paintings, drawings, etchings, lithographs and a sculpture. Many works feature Matisse's daughter Marguerite and had been loaned to the museum for a recent exhibition; the decision to donate was a surprise. The gift was made by Barbara Dauphin Duthuit, wife of Matisse's grandson Claude. Marguerite was born to Caroline Joblau during Matisse's student years and later joined his household. She survived a childhood tracheotomy, endured fragile health, joined the French resistance, was tortured by the Gestapo, and later assisted and catalogued her father's work until her death in 1982.
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