The Cat Who Walked Through Canvas

Marie Dubois

Tsuguharu Foujita

Henri Lefevre

Moustache

Foujita's Studio

A spacious atelier filled with artwork in progress, Japanese screens dividing the space, tall windows opening onto Montparnasse rooftops. The walls display Foujita's distinctive portraits—elongated figures with milky-white skin. In one corner, a collection of cat sculptures. Moustache sleeps on a velvet cushion near the easel.

Marie's Garret Studio

A tiny sixth-floor walk-up under the eaves, sloping ceiling pressing down, single north-facing window casting pale light across paint-splattered floorboards. The air smells perpetually of turpentine and stale croissants. Canvases stack against walls—most copies of museum masters, all unsigned.

The Painted World

Through Moustache's eyes, paintings become living spaces where Marie walks inside masterpieces—Picasso's fragmented cubist rooms, Modigliani's elongated portraits that shift and breathe, Monet's water gardens where light ripples across solid surfaces. Each painting has its own physics, its own emotional weather.