It opens in March 2012 at the Center Pompidou in Paris. About sixty canvases by Henri Matisse are hung on picture frames in the galleries. Dedicated to the artist’s series and couples, the exhibition deciphers the artist’s approach. From variants to variations, the canvases follow each other through eight rooms to penetrate the mystery. Early works, drawings, blue paper cutouts on a white background, it’s all there. Blue dress, profile in front of fireplace, he shouldn’t be there. Its label says: “Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden”, a private cultural institution in Norway that donated the canvas for the occasion. But Matisse catches the eye of Art Loss Register investigator Christopher Marinello, a specialist in the detection of stolen objects…
From Paris to Oslo since the 1940s, Blue dress traveled It belonged to Parisian art dealer Paul Rosenberg, whose fault it was that he was born Jewish at a time when anti-Semitism…
Source: Le Figaro
