Word: teaman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bought the Fayet collection of Gauguins outright, bought one canvas from Henri Matisse. He liked it. In 1906 he was back in Paris for more Matisse pictures, but his walls were getting so crowded that he insisted they must be painted to certain specified sizes. Three years later Teaman Stchoukine was still convinced that Henri Matisse was a fine painter, gave him carte blanche to decorate the grand staircase of his palace. In his narrow knickerbockers and high laced shoes, Artist Matisse frequented at that time the Moulin Rouge and the Moulin de la Galette, contemplating the dancing cocottes that...
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