This Parisian apartment was once dubbed the first museum of modern art 🎨🏠 After purchasing Henri Matisse’s controversial “Femme au chapeau (Woman with a Hat)” at the 1905 Salon d’Automne, siblings Leo and Gertrude Stein cemented their reputation as Paris’s most daring collectors. Displayed alongside works by Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, and Pablo Picasso in their apartment at 27 rue de Fleurus, the painting helped transform the Steins’ home into a gathering place for artists, writers, and collectors eager to engage with the newest ideas shaping modern art. In “Matisse’s Femme au chapeau: A Modern Scandal,” this gallery reimagines the Steins’ famed Saturday evening salons through a large-scale animated projection. Drawing from archival black-and-white photographs taken in the apartment between 1906 and 1914, the animation colorizes artworks once displayed in the space, offering a glimpse into the vibrant atmosphere of one of the most influential artistic circles of the early 20th cen...