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Byline: Dodie Kazanjian
I have less resistance to looking at a Matisse than I did before," Sophie Matisse says quietly. Sophie and I are at the Museum of Modern Art, in front of Plum Blossoms, Ochre Background, by Henri Matisse. Recently acquired by MoMA, with an estimated value of $25 million, it is one of the last canvases completed by Sophie's great-grandfather, whom many consider the greatest painter of the twentieth century.
Sophie's "resistance" comes from the fact that she herself is a painter. She has struggled for years with this overwhelming and not always benign legacy, with which she seems finally to be making her peace. Her third solo show ...