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As a Jew, when the Nazis occupied Paris, he had to flee. He hid in forests & had to sleep in the open. He became dangerously ill & had to return to Paris for an operation, which failed. He died in 1943. Le Petit Pâtissier (1920s), Choirboy (1927-8), Madeleine Castaing (c1929)
Madeleine Castaing became his patron (1930-5) & he held an exhibit in Chicago (1935). The Ray (c1922), Portrait of a Child in Blue (c1928), Still Life with Ray (c1924) & Oscar Miestchaninoff (1924). In his paintings of fish he is investigating the work of Chardin
When he painted he saw sitters as themselves & peeled away his own preconceptions of them. He was following the path of Rembrandt. Village Idiot, Woman in Green, Woman Seated in an Armchair & Woman with a Tall Hat (all c1919)