Marguerite au Chat Noir, Issy-les-Moulineaux, 1910, oil on canvas, 94 x 64cm, Paris. © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist.GrandPalaisRmn / Georges Meguerditchian
Some muses stay in the background. Marguerite Matisse never did.
On view at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, “Matisse and Marguerite” brings together over 110 works—paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and ceramics—to trace the profound bond between Henri Matisse and his eldest daughter, Marguerite Duthuit-Matisse. From childhood portraits to postwar drawings, Marguerite remained his most constant model and a vital, if often discreet, figure in his career.
Alongside rarely exhibited works are photographs, letters, and paintings by Marguerite herself, offering a rare glimpse into their lifelong creative partnership and the singular role she played in shaping Matisse’s art and legacy.