Henri Matisse
"And when My Mother, pretty as a church,
Takes me upon her lap, I laugh with love,
Loving to live in her flesh, which is My house - and full of
light!"
From:
The Holy Child's Song
Thomas Merton
The Virgin and Child
Detail form a study by Matisse,1948-49
for the Chapel of the Rosary at Vence, France
Vogue December 1970
