Woman before an Aquarium

1. The artist; sold to Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, June 12, 1923 [this and the following according to Dauberville 1995]; sold for 11,200 francs to Frederick Clay Bartlett (1873–1953), Chicago, June 14, 1923; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 27, 1926.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, Group of Modern Paintings from the Birch-Bartlett Collection, Sept. 8–Oct. 22, 1923, no cat.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Birch-Bartlett Collection of Modern European Paintings, Sept. 3–Oct. 22, 1924, no cat.
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Exhibition of Modern French Paintings from the Birch-Bartlett Collection Lent by Frederick C. Bartlett of Chicago, Apr. 1925, cat. 21, as Goldfish Bowl.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Birch-Bartlett Collection of Modern European Paintings, Sept. 8–Oct. 8, 1925, no cat.
• Boston Art Club, Birch-Bartlett Collection of Modern French Paintings, Dec. 9–26, 1925, cat. 23, as Femme devant un aquarium.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Painting in Paris from American Collections, Jan. 19–Feb. 16, 1930, cat. 52 (ill.), as Woman Looking at Aquarium.
• Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, Modern French Art, Mar. 11–31, 1930, cat. 24, as Woman Looking at Aquarium, 1910–17.
• Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 398, as Woman before an Aquarium, 1921.
• Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture for 1934, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 352, as Woman before an Aquarium, 1921.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Henri Matisse: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, Apr. 3–May 10, 1948, cat. 62 (ill.), as Woman Before an Aquarium, 1924.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month: Woman before an Aquarium by Henri Matisse, Sept. 1950, no cat.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Henri Matisse, Nov. 13, 1951–Jan. 13, 1952, cat. 54, as Woman before an Aquarium, (1921); Cleveland Museum of Art, Feb. 5– Mar. 16, 1952; Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 1–May 4, 1952; San Francisco Museum of Art, May 22–July 6, 1952.

• W. A. P., “Modern French Paintings: The Birch-Bartlett Collection,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 17, no. 7 (Oct. 1923), p. 71, as Girl with Fishbowl.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 169, cat. 2291, as Femme Devant un Aquarium.
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Exhibition of Modern French Paintings from the Birch-Bartlett Collection, exh. cat. (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1925), cat. 21, as Goldfish Bowl.
• Boston Art Club, Birch-Bartlett Collection of Modern French Paintings, exh. cat. (Boston Art Club, 1925), cat. 23, as Femme devant un aquarium.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch-Bartlett Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1926), n. pag., pp. 26, 27 (ill.), 55, as Femme devant un Aquarium and Femme Devant un Aquarium.
• “Accessions and Loans,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 20, no. 3 (Mar. 1926), p. 44 (ill.), as Femme devant un aquarium.
• Forbes Watson, “A Note on the Birch-Bartlett Collection,” Arts 9, no. 6 (June 1926), p. 308 (ill.), as Woman with an Aquarium.
• Jacques Guenne, Portraits d’artistes, L’art et la vie 4 (Éditions Marcel Seheur, 1927), n. pag., as Jeune fille devant un aquarium, 1922.
• Morton Dauwen Zabel, “An American Gallery of Modern Painting,” Art and Archaeology 26, no. 6 (Dec. 1928), pp. 229 (ill.), 233, as Femme devant un Aquarium.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch-Bartlett Collection, 2nd ed. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1929), n. pag., pp. 34–35 (ill.), 61, as Femme devant un Aquarium, Femme devant un Aquarium (Mlle. Matisse), and Femme Devant un Aquarium.
• Painting in Paris from American Collections, exh. cat., foreword by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1930), pp. 33, cat. 52; n. pag., no. 52 (ill.), as Woman Looking at Aquarium.
• Henry McBride, Matisse, Modern Art (Alfred A. Knopf, 1930), p. 20; pl. 22, as “Interior” and Femme devant un aquarium.

Bathers by a River

Art Institute of Chicago

Interior at Nice

Art Institute of Chicago

Apples

Art Institute of Chicago

Daisies

Art Institute of Chicago

Still Life with Geranium

Art Institute of Chicago

Lemons on a Pewter Plate

Art Institute of Chicago

Laurette with a Cup of Coffee

Art Institute of Chicago

Girl in Yellow and Blue with Guitar

Art Institute of Chicago

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