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SOPHIE'S "GUERNICA".(Sophie Matisse's painting of Picasso's 'Guernica' as Henri Matisse might have painted it)(Biography)
The idea of making a copy of Picasso's "Guernica" as Matisse might have done it was suggested to Sophie Matisse by her dealer, Francis Naumann. Naumann is a bit of an art-world wise guy. He was the curator of "Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York," at the Whitney Museum, in 1996, and he is also an authority on Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp, who happens to have been Sophie Matisse's step-grandfather; Duchamp married Alexina Matisse, known as Teeny, after she was divorced from Pierre Matisse, Henri Matisse's son.
Naumann is fifty-four, and Sophie, who is Matisse's great-granddaughter, is thirty-seven. They have known each other for almost twenty years, ever since ...
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