“Sacre Bleu! What kind of a man paints a woman like THAT?!!”

Henri Matisse did, as a matter of fact.  Of his wife. In 1905. When he was an unknown starving artist.  The artwork appeared in the Le Salon des Independents in Paris to cries that Matisse must be a “wild beast” and a victimizer of women. It was ravaged in the press. At the end of the showing he had an offer from famous American expatriate Gertrude Stein and her sister-in-law for 300 Francs.  Mrs. Matisse demanded 500 francs so she could buy their daughter clothing for the winter. The Steins paid the 500 Francs and hung the painting in their gallery next to another unconventional artistic upstart named Pablo Picasso. The painting is in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art today.

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