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Chasing Matisse

Source: www.reuters.com. Posted on 16 April 2005.

American writers James Morgan and Beth Arnold had spent 13 years creating the perfect home in Little Rock, Arkansas, when they decided to pack their belongings and hit the road.

Putting their beloved house on the market and their antiques into storage, the married couple set off for France to see the world with fresh eyes, picking as their guide an artist who had been dead for almost 50 years - Henri Matisse.

In 'Chasing Matisse - A Year in France Living My Dream', Morgan chronicles their travels in the footsteps of the French painter who founded the Fauvist art movement 100 years ago, and with it invented a new

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