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Matisse and Portraits

Previous exhibition from Friday 21 September 2007 until Sunday 21 October 2007

BRASSAï Romania 1899 - France 1984
Matisse with his model from A portfolio of ten photographs 1939, printed c.1973

BRASSAï (detail) Romania 1899 - France 1984. Matisse with his model from A portfolio of ten photographs 1939, printed c.1973

Exhibition of prints and drawings by Henri matisse scheduled to coincide with the NPG's annual lecture: Hilary Spurling - "Matisse's Women".

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