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Twenty-two kilometres east of Cambrai along an old Roman road, the small town of LE CATEAU is the birthplace of Henri Matisse (1869-1954), and as a gift to his home town, Matisse bequeathed it a collection of his works. Some of them are now displayed in the Musee Matisse , housed in the local chateau in the centre of town (the museum has been redesigned to double its floor-space and is due to reopen in February 2002). Although no major works are displayed at the museum, it's the third-largest collection of his work in France, and includes several studies for the chapel in Vence plus a whole series of his characteristically simple pen-and-ink sketches. Also worth looking at is the work of local Cubist Auguste Herbin, particularly his psychedelic upright piano.
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