Henri Matisse
Girl with Aquarium
1930
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Henri Matisse
Girl with Aquarium
1930
Physical Qualities
Graphite with erasing on paper, Sheet: 240 × 321 mm. (9 7/16 × 12 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.12.38
Matisse’s prints and drawings provided him with a library of images to be put aside for a time and reopened later with a fresh perspective. The vivid oil portrait of Matisse’s model, companion, and muse, Lydia Delectorskaya, from 1935, intensifies a pose explored casually in an earlier series of small etchings from 1929 in which a woman gazes, with dreamy disinterest, at goldfish in a bowl.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore (Aug. 19, 1937); Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne, 1937, from the artist (see Angela Rosengart's letter)
Matisse's influence on American Art
Matisse: Menschen, Masken, Modelle
Matisse as Printmaker
New Arrivals: Matisse Prints & Drawings
A Modern Influence: Henri Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore
"Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings in the Cone Collection," BMA rev ed. 1967, cat 197, (not illus).
Bernard Chaet, "The Art of Drawing" (NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970), fig. 3, p. 3.
Guillaud, Maurice, and Jacqueline Guillaud. Matisse: le rythme et la ligne. Paris: Guillaud Editions, 1987, plate no. 403 (published as “Femme à l’aquarium”).
Jeans Selz, "Matisse" (NY: Crown Publishers, 1990), illus. p. 80.
Senzoku, Nobuyuki, ed. Matisse and Modern Masters from the Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art = Kon korekushon ten. [Tokyo]: "Kon Korekushon" Ten Katarogu Iinkai, 1996, page 101, no. 48.
Cozzi, Leslie and Katherine Rothkopf (eds). "A Modern Influence: Henri Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2021. ill.
Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "Henri- Matisse"
