In Baltimore, an unparalleled look at Matisse and his daughter

BALTIMORE -- Unlike Michelangelo, Henri Matisse wasn't known for painting miracles. But in 1945, he sketched the one he witnessed. The French modernist had only one daughter, Marguerite, who acted as his model, muse and manager. She was imprisoned by the Gestapo in 1944, tortured and interrogated for aiding the French Resistance. Matisse, then in his 70s, assumed she would be killed. But Marguerite managed to escape during transport to a death camp and returned to the South of France in 1945, wh...