Picasso picked a portrait of Matisse’s daughter Marguerite, and Matisse chose a still life, Pitcher, Bowl and Lemon. It was said that Picasso hung the Matisse in a room where his friends threw ...

But the impoverished painter still found it a challenge to raise the money. More than four decades later Matisse recalled what had happened: “At Vollard’s there was a portrait by Van Gogh of a ...