Beyond being a fabulous collection, it is above all the story of a family adventure, born of unbreakable ties with the greatest artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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It is that of Jacqueline Matisse Monnier who died in 2021, "Jackie" for those close to her, granddaughter of the great painter Henri, daughter of Pierre, the famous New York modern art dealer, daughter-in-law of the renowned Marcel Duchamp. back in the 1950s in the assembly of its famous
boxes-in-valise.
Before managing his archives in his maid's room, serving as his workshop, on the sixth floor of rue du Bac.
A creative bubbling
The black and white photos that fill the catalog of the sale of her collection, on April 13, at Christie's in Paris, show this woman
"imprinted with discretion, poetry and gentleness"
, recalls Caroline Lalanne, daughter of Claude and François-Xavier, who rubbed shoulders with her as a neighbor in Villiers-sous-Grez, in the forest of Fontainebleau, alongside André Breton, Yves Tanguy, Roberto Matta or Joan Miro, her godfather...
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