{"id":386379,"date":"2026-01-02T07:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/386379\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T07:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:30:07","slug":"more-than-60-henri-matisse-artworks-donated-to-musee-dart-moderne-in-paris-henri-matisse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/386379\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 60 Henri Matisse artworks donated to Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne in Paris | Henri Matisse"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne in Paris has received an \u201cextraordinarily generous\u201d donation of 61 works by Henri Matisse<\/a> that have been kept in the artist\u2019s family.<\/p>\n

Most of the donated art \u2013 which includes paintings, drawings, etchings, lithographs and a sculpture \u2013 features the painter\u2019s daughter Marguerite.<\/p>\n

The donation, described by the museum as exceptional and historic, was made by Barbara Dauphin Duthuit, the wife of Matisse\u2019s grandson Claude, who died in 2011 in New York.<\/p>\n

Marguerite au peignoir, 1920. Photograph: Jean-Louis Losi\/Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne de Paris<\/p>\n

Many of the works had been loaned to the MAM for its Matisse et Marguerite<\/a> exhibition last year, but the museum said Duthuit\u2019s decision to allow them to keep them was a complete surprise. In 2013, Duthuit gave the Pompidou Centre Marguerite with a Black Cat, one of Matisse\u2019s best known portraits of his daughter.<\/p>\n

Marguerite, 1901 ou 1906. Photograph: Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne de Paris<\/p>\n

Marguerite, who was Matisse\u2019s favourite subject, was born during his relationship with one of his models, Caroline Joblau, when he was studying art in Paris<\/a>. The artist recognised the child and brought Marguerite to live with his new family, including her half-brothers Jean and Pierre, when he married four years later.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

She had taken up painting and was included in group exhibitions during the war, but gave it up to devote herself to being her father\u2019s assistant and agent until his death at 84, in November 1954. She was still cataloguing her father\u2019s work when she died in Paris in 1982, aged 87.<\/p>\n

Matisse preferred to keep his art in the family rather than sell it, making the donation particularly significant. The 61 pieces will join the 20 Matisse artworks already held by the museum.<\/p>\n

E\u0301tudes pour Marguerite lisant, 1906. Photograph: Jean-Louis Losi\/Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne de Paris<\/p>\n

Fabrice Hergott, MAM\u2019s director, described the portraits of Marguerite as \u201cextremely beautiful and moving\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis extraordinarily generous gesture testifies to Madame Duthuit\u2019s deep commitment to and confidence in the museum, which effectively becomes Marguerite\u2019s new home for the decades and centuries to come,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne in Paris has received an \u201cextraordinarily generous\u201d donation of 61 works by Henri Matisse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-386379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}