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From Matisse to Toulouse Lautrec
Model Doris Fischer at the 100 year old Art Institute of Chicago, Ox-Bow, Michigan, in 1946. Photo © Loomis Dean/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Sculptor Chaim Gross sketches a nude model in 1942. Photo © Eliot Elisofon/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Matisse and model. Photo by Brassaï © Gilberte Brassaï
Matisse dessinant un nu étendu. Photo by Brassaï © RMN-Grand Palais @Michèle Bellot
Matisse and model. Photo by Brassai, 1939 © Succession H. Matisse © Estate Brassaï – RMN-Grand Palais
Robert Rauschenberg’s nude model, 1951. Photo © Wallace Kirkland/ Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
L’Académie Julian de la rue du Dragon, modèle nu de face. Photo by Brassaï © RMN-Grand Palais @Michèle Bellot
Jean Negulesco in his Hollywood studio © Jerry Cooke Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Artist David Fredenthal sketches a model in 1948. Photo © Gjon Mili/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Thomas Hart Benton on his painting, « The Rape of Persephone » © Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Thomas Hart Benton on his painting, « The Rape of Persephone » © Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Farnsworth Art School students painting a nude model in 1946 © Andreas Feininger/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Toulouse Lautrec & Model Mirille, 1894. © Maurice Guibert
Model Doris Fischer at the 100 year old Art Institute of Chicago, Ox-Bow, Michigan, in 1946. Photo © Loomis Dean/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
The artist and his muse... an inseparable pair in the arts, embodied in painting, sculpture and music by the myth of Pygmalion. A tour of this relationship.
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