Meanwhile, the Modern is planning to mount an exhibition of the gift in the summer of 2006. We wanted to do it A.S.A.P., ... but it takes time to unload the boat and to absorb big gifts into our collection.
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We also took images of what we already owned so he could see them in context with his collection, ... It was a great couple of days. He had really thought about things.John Elderfield
The motivation for this exhibit was that Picasso once said that he, Picasso, had looked at Matisse's work more carefully than anyone else, and he had a sense that Matisse had looked at his work more carefully than anyone else,
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Matisse's aim in leaving the face blank was to encourage you to look all over the surface of the painting, ... He realized we are biologically constructed to focus on faces more than anything. So he came to the conclusion that the way to make the eyes circulate freely in the space was not to paint the face.
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For our 1992 retrospective of Matisse, I'd traveled from Japan to Australia to Mexico to the Soviet Union and could not find this painting. So this summer, when the call came, I said, 'How could it be.
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