#the model lorette

Image Information: Artist Henri Matisse and his Model- Place Charles-Felix, Nice South France, circa 1928. Image Source: Frenchvintage gallery.

Matisse and Lorette

Tea and sketches were only Foreplay for paint and color

Matisse the bespeckled gentleman chaste always Tie straight and shirt buttoned high Right up to his stiff collar

Consummation for he and her were Measured in proper brush strokes

She looks out from of his paintings Wearing the opulence of sin

Then fades almost to obscurity Never leaving the sordid gossip Of odalisques and loose women.