"There are these gorgeous, sublime images, but there's also a sense of worry."
Curator Rebecca Rabinow on "Jazz," an illustrated book by Henri Matisse.
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© 2013 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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"There are these gorgeous, sublime images, but there's also a sense of worry."
Rebecca Rabinow
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Rebecca Rabinow
Former Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Modern Art and Curator in Charge of the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center
Former Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Modern Art and Curator in Charge of the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center
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