“.. the Matisse of long ago, so alert, such a battler, always giving as good as he got.”

— Albert Marquet

As quoted by Hilary Spurling 'The Unknown Matisse: Man of the North, 1869 – 1908', Penguin UK, 28 Sep, 2006, note 47
In this quote Marquet looked back long afterwards to the late night conversations with Henri Matisse on the stairs of 19 Quai St. Michel

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