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Catherine C. Bock Weiss

Catherine C. Bock-Weiss is professor emerita at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the author of Henri Matisse: Modernist Against the Grain (Penn State University Press).

33 Days and Four Years 

Summer 2018

33 Days and Four Years 

By: Catherine C. Bock-Weiss

Leon Werth chronicled both the chaotic flight of French civilians from the advancing Germans and the long years of a French Jew living in "free" France.

Matisse and His Jewish Patrons

Summer 2012

Matisse and His Jewish Patrons

By: Catherine C. Bock-Weiss

Some of Henri Matisse's earliest and most committed supporters (and buyers) were Jewish. That might explain why Histoires Juives, a book of Yiddish jokes in French translation, and other Jewish items can be found in his paintings.

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