Bathers with a Turtle [SEP] collection
Bathers with a Turtle
Bathers with a Turtle is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1907 to 1908, in the collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum in St. Louis, Missouri.
It was purchased for $2400 by Joseph Pulitzer Jr. in 1939 at an auction of art that the Nazi government considered "degenerate". He later donated it to the museum.
Prior to that it had been in the collection of the Folkwang Museum in Essen, Germany.
Pulitzer purchased it at the urging of Matisse's son
, and draws parallels with the three figures in Henri Matisse's "Bathers with a Turtle".
The work was bought by the French state in 1968 and has been part of the collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou since 1976.
References.
- "Three Figures in a Room", Centre Georges Pompidou
- David Sylvester, Francis Bacon à nouveau, éd. André Dimanche, Paris, 2006
- "Three Figures in a Room" (1964) to Feature in Musée d’Orsay Exhibition
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