HE RAISED his voice. “Cook!” Cook heard him and came to the doorway. “What do we have that would appease my sweet tooth?” Cook smiled, left and returned with a fancy box of marzipan that she pressed into the old man’s upturned hand. He pulled off the top of the box. Inside were little animals(…)
Called John Lightfoot in #THE WOMAN WHO BROUGHT MATISSE BACK FROM THE DEAD, just back from Vietnam where he’d been a medic and Conscientious Objector, John (who first glimpsed Claude when he enrolled in The Art Students League) is loosely based on the artist John Emmett Connors. Even though she had threatened to throw a brick at(…)
ON what would have been her 105th birthday — February 15th — remembering #MIEP GIES who risked her life for over two years to help to hide and care for #Anne Frank and her family while in hiding and saved Anne’s diary after the arrest. Blessed to be her friend for over 25 years as well as her collaborator(…)
HE WAS “… sitting in the wheelchair cutting figures from paper that Lydia had painted periwinkle blue. On the floor on all sides … periwinkle and navy cuts and spirals of paper. The spasms he was having in his eyes all afternoon had abated.” ( From THE WOMAN WHO BROUGHT MATISSE BACK FROM THE DEAD)
Like Matisse, Lydia Delectorskya, thought to be Matisse’s mistress, had a bad feeling about Claude’s prolonged stay in America. Shouldn’t she have returned to France by now? [see The Woman Who Brought Matisse Back from the Dead by Alison Leslie Gold]
In The Woman Who Brought Matisse Back from the Dead, award-winning author of Anne Frank Remembered and The Devil’s Mistress, Alison Leslie Gold presents the life of nun-cum-artist’s model Claude Boule. Inspired by a true story and told in spare, evocative prose, this improbable, color-soaked life arc spans the art of Henri Matisse and Andy(…)
What caused THE WOMAN WHO BROUGHT MATISSE BACK FROM THE DEAD to change her name from Paule to Claude? Why, after modeling for Matisse and other artists after the war, did she go with a lover to the Florida Everglades? Why was Matisse against it?
As death stalked Matisse, France fell. There were days and weeks of continuous rain. Why was Paule Boule (who was to become THE WOMAN WHO BROUGHT MATISSE BACK FROM THE DEAD) crammed into the back of an open truck with two dozen others passing a swollen river near to St. Genis Lavel?
In 1941 Matisse had surgery for abdominal cancer. Immediately afterward he suffered two heart attacks. It was unlikely that he would survive. But he did. How? Available soon: THE WOMAN WHO BROUGHT MATISSE BACK FROM THE DEAD by Alison Leslie Gold. (Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson)
