{"data":{"id":27984,"api_model":"artworks","api_link":"https:\/\/api.artic.edu\/api\/v1\/artworks\/27984","is_boosted":true,"title":"Woman before an Aquarium","alt_titles":null,"thumbnail":{"lqip":"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBgAFAPQAAFo9L14+LmE\/L15GLmFFLGFDNVlfWGtUR2RfT29cTHhVRHhaQWBbVWleUnZiSmhhXUhcYUlfaFRjZk5ue1ZreI5vV4tvZINyZIF3Z2iEjGqIkXGFknCgkaOahAAAAAAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAAGAAUAAAUYYJdNnLZhUoQYVMNcVQItxOBYjyIUQHCEADs=","width":18546,"height":15199,"alt_text":"Painting of woman, arms crossed on brown desk, staring at goldfish."},"main_reference_number":"1926.220","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1921,"date_end":1923,"date_display":"1921\u201323","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"Henri Matisse\nFrench, 1869\u20131954","place_of_origin":"France","description":"<p>In the first two decades of the 20th century, Henri Matisse visited exhibitions of Islamic art and traveled to Algeria and Morocco, where he collected pottery, textiles, and tiles. Years later while living in Nice, France, Matisse reflected on these experiences, integrating visual elements he encountered, such as the patterned textile screen, into his paintings. In <em>Woman before an Aquarium<\/em>, the carefully subdued decorative pattern of the screen contributes to the psychologically rich, contemplative mood of this interior scene.<\/p>\n","short_description":null,"dimensions":"81.2 \u00d7 100.2 cm (31 15\/16 \u00d7 39 7\/16 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":100,"height":81,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Signed, l.r.: \"Henri Matisse\"","credit_line":"Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"W. A. P., \u201cModern French Paintings: The Birch-Bartlett Collection,\u201d\u00a0Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago\u00a017, no.\u00a07 (Oct. 1923), p.\u00a071, as\u00a0Girl with\u00a0Fishbowl.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago,\u00a0A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection\u00a0(Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p.\u00a0169, cat.\u00a02291, as\u00a0Femme Devant un\u00a0Aquarium.\n\nMinneapolis Institute of Arts,\u00a0Exhibition of Modern French Paintings from the Birch-Bartlett Collection, exh.\u00a0cat. (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1925), cat.\u00a021, as\u00a0Goldfish\u00a0Bowl.\n\nBoston Art Club,\u00a0Birch-Bartlett Collection of Modern French Paintings, exh.\u00a0cat. (Boston Art Club, 1925), cat.\u00a023, as\u00a0Femme devant un\u00a0aquarium.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago,\u00a0Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch-Bartlett Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1926), n. pag., pp.\u00a026, 27\u00a0(ill.), 55, as\u00a0Femme devant un Aquarium\u00a0and\u00a0Femme Devant un\u00a0Aquarium.\n\n\u201cAccessions and Loans,\u201d\u00a0Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago\u00a020, no.\u00a03 (Mar.\u00a01926), p.\u00a044\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Femme devant un\u00a0aquarium.\n\nForbes Watson, \u201cA Note on the Birch-Bartlett Collection,\u201d\u00a0Arts\u00a09, no.\u00a06 (June 1926), p.\u00a0308\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Woman with an\u00a0Aquarium.\n\nJacques Guenne,\u00a0Portraits d\u2019artistes, L\u2019art et la vie\u00a04\u00a0(\u00c9ditions Marcel Seheur, 1927), n. pag., as\u00a0Jeune fille devant un aquarium,\u00a01922.\n\nMorton Dauwen Zabel, \u201cAn American Gallery of Modern Painting,\u201d\u00a0Art and Archaeology\u00a026, no.\u00a06 (Dec.\u00a01928), pp.\u00a0229\u00a0(ill.), 233, as\u00a0Femme devant un\u00a0Aquarium.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago,\u00a0Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch-Bartlett Collection, 2nd ed. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1929), n. pag., pp.\u00a034\u201335\u00a0(ill.), 61, as\u00a0Femme devant un Aquarium,\u00a0Femme devant un Aquarium (Mlle. Matisse), and\u00a0Femme Devant un\u00a0Aquarium.\n\nPainting in Paris from American Collections, exh.\u00a0cat., foreword by Alfred\u00a0H. Barr,\u00a0Jr. (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1930), pp.\u00a033, cat.\u00a052; n. pag., no.\u00a052\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Woman Looking at\u00a0Aquarium.\n\nHenry McBride,\u00a0Matisse, Modern Art (Alfred\u00a0A. Knopf, 1930), p.\u00a020; pl.\u00a022, as \u201cInterior\u201d and\u00a0Femme devant un\u00a0aquarium.\n\nRhode Island School of Design,\u00a0Modern French Art, exh.\u00a0cat. (Rhode Island School of Design, 1930), cat.\u00a024, as\u00a0Woman Looking at Aquarium, 1910\u20131917.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago,\u00a0A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection\u00a0(Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p.\u00a0162, as\u00a0Femme devant un\u00a0Aquarium.\n\nJames Johnson Sweeney, \u201cLa peinture fran\u00e7aise moderne \u00e0 l\u2019Institut des beaux-arts de Chicago,\u201d\u00a0Cahiers d\u2019Art\u00a08\u201310 (1932), pp.\u00a0335\u00a0(ill.), 336, as\u00a0la Femme devant un\u00a0aquarium.\n\nWalter J. Sherwood, \u201cThe Famous Birch Bartlett Collection,\u201d\u00a0Chicago Visitor\u00a0(Oct. 1932), pp.\u00a017\u00a0(ill.), 40, as\u00a0The Woman and the\u00a0Aquarium.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago,\u00a0Catalogue of \u201cA Century of Progress\u201d: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture; Lent from American Collections, ed.\u00a0Daniel Catton Rich, exh.\u00a0cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), p.\u00a056, cat.\u00a0398, as\u00a0Woman before an Aquarium, Nice,\u00a01921.\n\nDaniel Catton Rich, \u201cThe Exhibition of French Art: \u2018Art Institute\u2019 of Chicago,\u201d\u00a0Formes\u00a033, English edition (1933), n. pag.\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Femme devant un\u00a0Aquarium.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago,\u00a0Catalogue of \u201cA Century of Progress\u201d: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 1934, ed.\u00a0Daniel Catton Rich, exh.\u00a0cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1934), p.\u00a052, cat.\u00a0352, as\u00a0Woman before an Aquarium, Nice,\u00a01921.\n\nAlexander Romm,\u00a0Henri-Matisse, trans.\u00a0Chen I-wan (Ogiz-Izogiz, 1937), pp.\u00a057, 74, n. pag.\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Woman with an Aquarium,\u00a01924.\n\nGino Severini,\u00a0Matisse, \u201cAnticipazioni,\u201d Serie arti\u00a06 (Libreria Fratelli Bocca, 1944), p.\u00a026\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Donna e\u00a0acquario.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago,\u00a0Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch Bartlett Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1946), pp.\u00a032, 33\u00a0(ill.), 57, as\u00a0Woman before an Aquarium\/(Femme devant un Aquarium\u2014Mlle. Matisse),\u00a01921.\n\nAlexander Romm,\u00a0Matisse: A Social Critique, trans.\u00a0Jack\u00a0Chen (Lear, 1947), pp.\u00a077, 95, n. pag.\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Woman with an Aquarium,\u00a01924.\n\nHenry Clifford and Henri Matisse,\u00a0Henri Matisse: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, Organized in Collaboration with the Artist, exh.\u00a0cat. (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1948), pp.\u00a040, cat.\u00a062; n. pag., no.\u00a062\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Woman Before an Aquarium,\u00a01924.\n\nClement Greenberg, \u201cMatisse, Seen Through Soviet Eyes,\u201d\u00a0New York Times, Jan. 25, 1948, p.\u00a0BR7, as\u00a0Woman Looking at\u00a0Aquarium.\n\nClement Greenberg, \u201cOn Critics and Greenberg: Reply,\u201d\u00a0Partisan Review\u00a015, no.\u00a06 (June 1948), pp.\u00a0685\u201386, as\u00a0Woman before an Aquarium,\u00a01924.\n\nChristopher E. Fremantle, \u201cMatisse in Philadelphia,\u201d\u00a0Studio136, 666 (Sept. 1948), p.\u00a095\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Woman with an Aquarium,\u00a01924.\n\n\u201cExhibitions,\u201d\u00a0Bulletin\u00a0of the\u00a0Art Institute of Chicago\u00a044, no.\u00a03 (Sept. 15, 1950), p.\u00a057, as\u00a0Woman before an Aquarium, early\u00a01920s.\n\nMuseum of Modern Art,\u00a0Henri Matisse,\u00a0exh.\u00a0cat., introduction by Alfred\u00a0H. Barr,\u00a0Jr. (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1951), pp.\u00a07; 10, cat.\u00a054, as\u00a0Woman before an Aquarium,\u00a0(1921). \n\nAlfred H. Barr, Jr.,\u00a0Matisse: His Art and His Public\u00a0(Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1951), pp.\u00a0164, 209\u201310, 436\u00a0(ill.), 558, as\u00a0Woman before an Aquarium (Femme et poissons\u00a0rouges), Nice (1921) and\u00a0Woman before an Aquarium,\u00a01921. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago,\u00a0Masterpieces in the Art Institute of Chicago\u00a0(Art Institute of Chicago, 1952), n. pag.\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Woman Before an\u00a0Aquarium.\n\nFrederick A. Sweet, \u201cHenri Matisse,\u201d\u00a0Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly\u00a046, no.\u00a02 (Apr.\u00a01, 1952), p.\u00a035\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Woman Before an\u00a0Aquarium.\n\nGaston Diehl,\u00a0Henri Matisse, with notices by Agn\u00e8s Humbert (\u00c9ditions Pierre Tisn\u00e9, 1954), pl.\u00a091; p.\u00a0143, no.\u00a091, as\u00a0Femme et poissons rouges,\u00a01921.\n\nHenri Matisse,\u00a0Portraits\u00a0(Andr\u00e9 Sauret, 1954), pp.\u00a0127\u00a0(ill.), [152], as Mlle.\u00a0H.\u00a0D. Femme devant un aquarium, Nice,\u00a01921. Translated as\u00a0Portraits\u00a0(Andr\u00e9 Sauret, 1955), pp.\u00a0127\u00a0(ill.), [152], as Mlle H. D.\u00a0Woman Before\u00a0[sic]\u00a0an Aquarium, Nice,\u00a01921.\n\nMus\u00e9e national d\u2019art moderne,\u00a0R\u00e9trospective Henri Matisse, exh.\u00a0cat., essay by Jean Cassou (\u00c9ditions desmus\u00e9es nationaux, 1956), pp.\u00a028, cat. 63; pl.\u00a024, as\u00a0Femme devant un Aquarium,\u00a01921.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago,\u00a0Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection\u00a0(Art Institute of Chicago, 1961, repr., 1968), pp.\u00a0305, 475\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Woman Before an Aquarium,\u00a01921.\n\nFrederick Brill,\u00a0Matisse, Colour Library of Art (Paul Hamlyn, 1967) p.\u00a037; pl. 26, as\u00a0Woman and Goldfish,\u00a01921.\n\nJean Guichard-Meili,\u00a0Matisse\u00a0(Frederick\u00a0A. Praeger, 1967), p.\u00a0231, as\u00a0Woman before an\u00a0Aquarium.\nKenjir\u014d Okamoto,\u00a0Bonnard\/Matisse, L\u2019art du monde16 (Kawade Shob\u014d, 1968), n. pag.; pp.\u00a0[59], pl. 55; 112, no. 55, as\u00a0On;na to kingyo\u00a0[Woman and Goldfish]\/Femme et poissons rouges,\u00a01921.\n\nLouis Aragon,\u00a0Henri Matisse, roman, vol.\u00a02 (\u00c9ditions Gallimard, 1971), pp.\u00a0109; 111, pl.\u00a0XX; 360, no.\u00a0XX, as\u00a0Femme et poissons rouges\u00a0and\u00a0Femme et poissons rouges\u00a0ouJ eune femme \u00e0 l\u2019aquarium,\u00a01923. Translated by Jean Stewart as\u00a0Henri Matisse: A Novel, vol.\u00a02 (Helen and Kurt Wolff\/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972), pp.\u00a0109; 111, fig.\u00a0XX; 360, no.\u00a0XX, as\u00a0Woman before an Aquarium\u00a0and\u00a0Woman before an Aquarium\u00a0(Femme et poisons rouges or\u00a0Jeune femme \u00e0 l\u2019aquarium),\u00a01923.\n\nMassimo Carr\u00e0, \u201cCatalogo delle opera,\u201d in Mario Luzi and Massimo Carr\u00e0,\u00a0L\u2019opera di Matisse: Dalla rivolta \u2018fauve\u2019 all\u2019intimismo, 1904\u20131928, Classici dell\u2019Arte 49 (Rizzoli Editore, 1971), p.\u00a0100, cat. 337\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Donna e pesci rossi,\u00a01921. Translated as \u201cDocumentation: Catalogue des \u0153uvres,\u201d in\u00a0Tout l\u2019\u0153uvre peint de Matisse, 1904\u20131928, ed.\u00a0Xavier Deryng, Les Classiques de l\u2019Art (Flammarion, 1982), p.\u00a0100, cat. 337\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Femme devant un aquarium,\u00a01921.\n\nJohn Jacobus,\u00a0Henri Matisse, Library of Great Painters (Harry\u00a0N. Abrams, 1973), p.\u00a0168, as\u00a0Woman with Aquarium,\u00a01921.\n\nTheodore Reff, \u201cMatisse: Meditations on a Statuette and\u00a0Goldfish,\u201d\u00a0Arts Magazine\u00a051, no.\u00a03 (Nov.\u00a01976), pp.\u00a0113; 114, fig.\u00a019, as\u00a0Woman before an Aquarium,\u00a01921.\n\nViolette de Mazia, \u201cWhat\u2019s in a Frame?\u201d\u00a0Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department\u00a08, no.\u00a02 (Autumn 1977), p.\u00a053, n.; pl.\u00a0146, as\u00a0Woman Before an Aquarium,\u00a01923.\n\nN. Kosareva, \u201cNotes on the Plates: 60,\u201d trans. Iu.\u00a0Nemetsky and I.\u00a0Vlader, in Hermitage State Museum and Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts,\u00a0Henri Matisse: Paintings and Sculptures in Soviet Museums\u00a0(Aurora Art Publishers, 1978), p.\u00a0190\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Woman and Goldfish\u00a0or\u00a0Young Woman by the Fishbowl,\u00a01921.\n\nLawrence Gowing,\u00a0Matisse\u00a0(Thames\u00a0& Hudson, 1979), pp.\u00a0155, fig. 139; 210, no. 139, as\u00a0Femme et poissons rouges\u00a0and\u00a0Femme et poissons rouges\u00a0(Woman before an Aquarium),\u00a01921.\n\nA. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell,\u00a0Twentieth-Century European Paintings\u00a0(University of Chicago Press, 1980), pp.\u00a014; 55, no. 2F12; microfiche 2, no. F12\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Woman Before an Aquarium, 1923 and\u00a01921\u201323.\n\nKate Linker, \u201cMeditations on a Goldfish Bowl: Autonomy and Analogy in Matisse,\u201d\u00a0Artforum\u00a019, no.\u00a02 (Oct.\u00a01980) p.\u00a073, n.\u00a05, as\u00a0Woman Before an Aquarium,\u00a01921.\n\nPierre Schneider,\u00a0Matisse\u00a0(Flammarion, 1984), pp.\u00a0420, 501\u00a0(ill.), 513, as\u00a0Femme aux poissons rouges\u00a0and\u00a0Femme et Poissons rouges, 1921 and\u00a01923. \n\n\u201cThe Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection,\u201d special issue,\u00a0Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies\u00a012, no.\u00a02\u00a0(1986), p.\u00a0223, no.\u00a017, as\u00a0Woman Before an Aquarium,\u00a01923. \n\nCatherine C. Bock, \u201cWoman Before an Aquarium\u00a0and\u00a0Woman on a Rose Divan: Matisse in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection,\u201d in \u201cThe Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection,\u201d special issue,\u00a0Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies\u00a012, no.\u00a02 (1986), pp.\u00a0200, fig. 1; 201; 202, 204; 205; 206\u201307; 211; 213; 218; 219\u201320, nn.\u00a010, 19, as\u00a0Woman Before an Aquarium, 1923.\n\nRichard R. Brettell, \u201cThe Bartletts and the Grande Jatte: Collecting Modern Painting in the 1920s,\u201d in \u201cThe Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection,\u201d special issue,\u00a0Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies\u00a012, no\u00a02 (1986), p.\u00a0106, as\u00a0Woman Before an\u00a0Aquarium.\n\nJack Cowart and Dominique Fourcade, \u201cAlbum of Colorplates\u201d and \u201cConcordance,\u201d in\u00a0Henri Matisse: The Early Years in Nice, 1916\u20131930, exh.\u00a0cat. (National Gallery of Art, Washington,\u00a0DC\/Harry\u00a0N. Abrams, 1986), pp.\u00a0166, pl.\u00a0119;334, as\u00a0Femme devant un aquarium,\u00a01923. \n\nJean Guichard-Meili,\u00a0Matisse\u00a0(\u00c9ditions Aimery Somogy, 1986), p.\u00a0129, as\u00a0Femme devant un aquarium,\u00a01921.\nMargrit Hahnloser-Ingold, \u201cCollecting Matisses of the 1920s in the 1920s,\u201d in Jack Cowart and Dominique Fourcade,\u00a0Henri Matisse: The Early Years in Nice, 1916\u20131930, exh.\u00a0cat. (National Gallery of Art\/Washington,\u00a0DC\/Harry\u00a0N. Abrams, 1986), p.\u00a0257, as\u00a0Femme devant un aquarium, c.\u00a01923. \n\nJacqueline Guillaud and Maurice Guillaud,\u00a0Matisse: Le rythme et la ligne\u00a0(Guillaud \u00c9ditions, 1987), pp.\u00a0150, nos. 153, 154; [156] (detail); [157], fig.\u00a0154, as\u00a0Femme devant un aquarium,\u00a01921. Translated as\u00a0Matisse: Rhythm and Line\u00a0(Clarkson\u00a0N. Potter, 1987), pp.\u00a0150, nos. 153, 154; [156] (detail); [157], fig.\u00a0154, as\u00a0Woman Before an Aquarium,\u00a01921.\n\nKenneth E. Silver, \u201cMatisse\u2019s Retour \u00e0 l\u2019ordre,\u201d\u00a0Art in America\u00a075, no.\u00a06 (June 1987), p.\u00a0122, as\u00a0Woman Before an Aquarium,\u00a01923.\n\nJack Flam, ed.,\u00a0Matisse: A Retrospective\u00a0(Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1988), p.\u00a0235, pl.\u00a074, as\u00a0Woman Before an Aquarium,\u00a01923.\n\nJames N. Wood and Katharine C. Lee,\u00a0Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago\u00a0(Art Institute of Chicago, 1988), pp.\u00a08, 129\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Woman before an Aquarium,\u00a01921\u201323.\n\nGiles N\u00e9ret,\u00a0Matisse\u00a0(Nouvelles \u00c9ditions Fran\u00e7ais\/Casterman, 1991), pp.\u00a0142; 143, fig.\u00a0222; 269, as\u00a0Femme et poissons rouges,\u00a01921.\n\nJohn Elderfield with Beatrice Kernan, \u201cPlates and Chronology,\u201d in John Elderfield,\u00a0Henri Matisse: A Retrospective, exh.\u00a0cat. (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1992), pp.\u00a0296; 329, pl.\u00a0255, as\u00a0Woman Before an Aquarium\/Femme devant un aquarium, Nice, place Charles-F\u00e9lix, [late1921 or\u00a01923]. \n\nJack Flam, \u201cLes sujets de Matisse: Th\u00e8mes et variations,\u201d in Xavier Girard et\u00a0al.,\u00a0Matisse aujourd\u2019hui, Cahiers Henri\u00a0Matisse\u00a05 (Mus\u00e9e Matisse, 1992), pp.\u00a096\u00a0(ill.), 108, as\u00a0Femme devant un aquarium, 1921 and\u00a0Femme devant un aquarium,\u00a01923.\n\nSarah Wilson,\u00a0Matisse\u00a0(Rizzoli, 1992), pp.\u00a0[86], fig.\u00a0102; 127, no.\u00a0102, as\u00a0Woman with an Aquarium,\u00a01921.\nDokuho suru iro to katachi\u00a0[Color and Form: 20th Century\u00a0I], Meiga e no tabi [Journey into the Masterpieces] 22 (Kodansha, 1993), pp.\u00a049, pl. 2-28; 145, no. 2-28, as\u00a0Kingyobachi no mae no on'na\u00a0[Woman in front of a fishbowl]\/Woman before an Aquarium,\u00a01921.\n\nBrooks Adams, \u201cMatisse, Belgian Symbolist,\u201d in Brooks Adams et al., \u201cMatisse: A Symposium,\u201d\u00a0Art in America\u00a081, 5 (May 1993), p.\u00a078, as\u00a0Woman Before an Aquarium, 1921 or 1923.\u00a0\n\nRen\u00e9e Manfredi,\u00a0Where Love Leaves Us\u00a0(University of Iowa Press, 1994), front jacket cover\u00a0(ill.), back inside flap, as\u00a0Woman Before an Aquarium,\u00a01921.\n\nFrank Milner,\u00a0Henri Matisse\u00a0(Bison Books, 1994), pp.\u00a098\u201399\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Woman before an Aquarium,\u00a01921\u201323.\n\nGuy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville,\u00a0Matisse: Henri Matisse chez Bernheim-Jeune, vol.\u00a02 (\u00c9ditions Bernheim-Jeune, 1995), pp.\u00a01064, cat. 515; 1065\u00a0(ill.); 1440; 1460; 1465, as\u00a0Jeune fille \u00e0 l\u2019aquarium,\u00a01923.\n\nCatherine C. Bock-Weiss,\u00a0Henri Matisse: A Guide to Research, Artist Resource Manuals\u00a01, ed.\u00a0Wolfgang\u00a0M. Freitag, Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 1424 (Garland Publishing, 1996), pp.\u00a0313\u201314, nos.\u00a0973\u201377; 678;\u00a0690, as\u00a0Woman Before an Aquarium,\u00a0Femme devant un aquarium (Woman Before an Aquarium),\u00a0Woman Before an Aquarium (Femme devant un aquarium),\u00a01923.\n\nCharles Harrison,\u00a0Modernism, Movements in Modern Art (Tate Gallery\/Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp.\u00a064\u201365, fig.\u00a051, as\u00a0Woman before an Aquarium,\u00a01921\u20133.\n\nSusan A. Sternau,\u00a0Henri Matisse\u00a0(Todtri, 1997), p.\u00a0103\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Woman Before an Aquarium,\u00a01923.\n\n\u201cKatalog,\u201d in\u00a0Max Beckmann und Paris: Matisse, Picasso, Braque, L\u00e9ger, Rouault, exh.\u00a0cat., ed.\u00a0Tobia Bezzola and Cornelia Homburg (Saint Louis Art Museum\/Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich\/Taschen, 1998), p.\u00a0234, cat. 83, as\u00a0Frau vor einem Aquarium\/\u201cFemme devant un aquarium,\u201d 1921\/23. Translated as \u201cCatalogue,\u201d in\u00a0Max Beckmann und Paris: Matisse, Picasso, Braque, L\u00e9ger, Rouault, exh.\u00a0cat., ed.\u00a0Tobia Bezzola and Cornelia \nHomburg (Saint Louis Art Museum\/Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich\/Taschen, 1998), p.\u00a0233, cat.\u00a083, as\u00a0Woman Before a Fish Bowl,\u00a01921\/23.\n\nIngrid Schaffner,\u00a0The Essential Henri Matisse, Essential Series (Wonderland Press\/Harry\u00a0N. Abrams, 1998), pp.\u00a06, 7\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Woman Before an Aquarium,\u00a01921.\n\nCarla Schulz-Hoffmann, \u201cBeckmann, Matisse, und L\u00e9ger,\u201d in\u00a0Max Beckmann und Paris: Matisse, Picasso, Braque, L\u00e9ger, Rouault, exh.\u00a0cat., ed.\u00a0Tobia Bezzola and Cornelia Homburg (Saint Louis Art Museum\/Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich\/Taschen, 1998), p.\u00a0103, no. 83\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Frau vor einem Aquarium,\u00a01921\/23. Translated by Ishbel Flettas \u201cBeckmann, Matisse, and L\u00e9ger,\u201d in\u00a0Max Beckmann and\u00a0Paris: Matisse, Picasso, Braque, L\u00e9ger, Rouault, exh.\u00a0cat., ed.\u00a0Tobia Bezzola and Cornelia Homburg (Saint Louis Art Museum\/Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich\/Taschen, 1998), p.\u00a0103, no. 83\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Woman Before a Fish Bowl,\u00a01921\/23.\n\nJohn O\u2019Brian,\u00a0Ruthless Hedonism: The American Reception of Matisse\u00a0(University of Chicago Press, 1999), p.\u00a0188, as\u00a0Woman Before an Aquarium,\u00a01923.\n\nMichael Lobel,\u00a0Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art\u00a0(Yale University Press, 2002), pp.\u00a0136; 137, fig.\u00a087; 138, as\u00a0Woman Before an Aquarium,\u00a01921.\n\nJudith A. Stanford,\u00a0Responding to Literature: Stories, Poems, Plays, and Essays, 4th\u00a0ed. (McGraw Hill, 2003), pp.\u00a0ix, color section 10\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Woman before an Aquarium, 1921. \n\nCharles Harrison, \u201cChapter 4: Bonnard and Matisse: Expression and Emotion,\u201d in\u00a0Art of the Avant-Gardes, ed.\u00a0Steve Edwards and Paul Wood, Art of the 20th Century (Yale University Press\/Open University, 2004), pp.\u00a0128; 129, pl.\u00a04.18; 130, as\u00a0Woman before an Aquarium,\u00a01921.\n\n\u201cVerzeichnis der Werke,\u201d in\u00a0Henri Matisse: Figur, Farbe, Raum, exh.\u00a0cat., ed.\u00a0Pia M\u00fcller-Tamm (K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, D\u00fcsseldorf, 2005), p.\u00a0369, cat.\u00a0115, as\u00a0Femme devant un aquarium\/Frau mit Goldfischen,\u00a01921\u20131923. \n\nJack Flam, \u201cGoldfish\u201d in Dorthe Aagesen\u00a0et\u00a0al.,\u00a0Matisse Masterpieces at Statens Museum for Kunst\u00a0(Statens\u00a0Museum for Kunst, 2005), pp.\u00a0179\u201380; 183, n.\u00a032, as [no title]\u00a01923.\n\nCharles Harrison,\u00a0Painting the Difference: Sex and Spectator in Modern Art\u00a0(University of Chicago Press, 2005), pp.\u00a0viii, no.\u00a0136; 182 (detail); 191; 192, fig. 136, as\u00a0Woman with a Goldfish Bowl,\u00a01923.\n\nMelanie Horst, \u201cGem\u00e4lde, Plastiken, Zeichnungen, Grafiken, Papierschnitte: Verschr\u00e4nkungen,\u201d in\u00a0Henri Matisse: Figur, Farbe, Raum, exh.\u00a0cat., ed.\u00a0Pia M\u00fcller-Tamm (K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, D\u00fcsseldorf, 2005), pp.\u00a0200, 201\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Femme devant un aquarium\/Frau mit Goldfischen,\u00a01921\u201323.\n\nPia M\u00fcller-Tamm, \u201cHenri Matisse: Figur, Farbe, Raum,\u201d in\u00a0Henri Matisse: Figur, Farbe, Raum, exh.\u00a0cat., ed. Pia M\u00fcller-Tamm (K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, D\u00fcsseldorf, 2005), pp.\u00a036, fig. 22; 37; 38, as\u00a0Femme devant un aquarium\/Frau mit Goldfischen,\u00a01921\u20131923.\n\n\u201cCalendar Highlights: Unknown Matisse,\u201d\u00a0Art Institute of Chicago News and Events\u00a0(Jan.\/Feb. 2005), p.\u00a019, as\u00a0Woman before an Aquarium,\u00a01921\u201323.\n\nPatricia Hampl,\u00a0Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime (Harcourt, 2006), pp.\u00a02, 3\u20136, 7, 12, 13\u201317, 22, 99, 113, as\u00a0Femme et poissons rouges\u00a0and\u00a0Woman Before an Aquarium,\u00a01921.\n\nKathryn Harrison, \u201cHammered by Art: Patricia Hampl Seeks Out Painting that Jolts Viewers into Curiosity and Craving,\u201d\u00a0New York Times Book Review, Oct. 29, 2006,\u00a0p.\u00a016\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Woman Before an\u00a0Aquarium.\n\nAnabelle Kienle,\u00a0Max Beckmann in Amerika\u00a0(Michael Imhof Verlag, 2008), pp.\u00a094, fig.\u00a040; 95; 172, n. 613, as\u00a0Frau vor einem Aquarium,\u00a01921\/23.\n\nDorothy Lichtenstein and Jeff Koons, \u201cConversation,\u201d in\u00a0Lichtenstein Girls, exh.\u00a0cat. (Gagosian Gallery, 2008), pp.\u00a011\u00a0(ill.), [93], as\u00a0Woman Before an Aquarium,\u00a01921\u201323.\n\nJason Andrew, \u201cFord + Biala: A Long and Passionate Dialogue,\u201d\u00a0Ford Madox Ford and Visual Culture, ed.\u00a0Laura Colombino, International Ford Madox Ford Studies\u00a08 (Editions Rodopi\/Ford Madox Ford Society, 2009), pp.\u00a012, no. 40; pl. 40, as\u00a0Woman before an Aquarium,\u00a01921\u201323.\n\nCatherine Bock-Weiss,\u00a0Henri Matisse: Modernist Against the Grain\u00a0(Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009), pp.\u00a0ix, no. 4; xiii; 6; pl. 4; 83\u201384; 86\u201388; 91\u201392; 98; 172; 190, n. 1; 191, n.\u00a010; 192, n.\u00a019, as\u00a0Woman Before an Aquarium,\u00a01921\u201323.\n\nStephanie D\u2019Alessandro and John Elderfield, \u201cCoda: The Experiment Remembered,\u201d in Stephanie D\u2019Alessandro and John Elderfield,\u00a0Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913\u20131917, exh.\u00a0cat. (Art Institute of Chicago\/Museum of Modern Art, New York\/Yale University Press, 2010), p.\u00a0350, fig.\u00a01, as\u00a0Woman Before an Aquarium, late 1921 or\u00a01923.\n\nStephanie D\u2019Alessandro,\u00a0The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago, with contributions by Ren\u00e9e DeVoe Mertz, exh.\u00a0cat. (Art Institute of Chicago\/Kimbell Art Museum, 2013), pp.\u00a013,\u00a073, 75\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Woman before an Aquarium,\u00a01921\u201323.\n\nStephanie D\u2019Alessandro, with contributions by Ren\u00e9e DeVoe Mertz,\u00a0The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Art at the Art Institute of Chicago\u00a0(Art Institute of Chicago\/Yale University Press, 2014), pp.\u00a011\u00a0(ill.), 73, 75\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Woman before an Aquarium, 1921\u201323.\n\n\u201cWoman before an Aquarium,\u201d in\u00a0Matisse Paintings, Works on Paper, Sculpture, and Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago, ed.\u00a0Stephanie D\u2019Alessandro\u00a0(Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2019), cat. 34, <a href=\"https:\/\/publications.artic.edu\/matisse\/reader\/works\/section\/71\/71_anchor\">https:\/\/publications.artic.edu\/matisse\/reader\/works\/section\/71\/71_anchor<\/a>.","exhibition_history":"Art Institute of Chicago,\u00a0Group of Modern Paintings from the Birch-Bartlett Collection, Sept. 8\u2013Oct. 22, 1923, no\u00a0cat.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago,\u00a0Birch-Bartlett Collection of Modern European Paintings, Sept.\u00a03\u2013Oct.\u00a022,\u00a01924, no\u00a0cat.\n\nMinneapolis Institute of Arts,\u00a0Exhibition of Modern French Paintings from the Birch-Bartlett Collection Lent by Frederick\u00a0C. Bartlett of Chicago,\u00a0Apr.\u00a01925, cat.\u00a021, as\u00a0Goldfish\u00a0Bowl.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago,\u00a0Birch-Bartlett Collection of Modern European Paintings, Sept.\u00a08\u2013Oct.\u00a08,\u00a01925, no\u00a0cat.\n\nBoston Art Club,\u00a0Birch-Bartlett Collection of Modern French Paintings,\u00a0Dec.\u00a09\u201326,\u00a01925, cat.\u00a023, as\u00a0Femme devant un\u00a0aquarium.\n\nNew York, Museum of Modern Art,\u00a0Painting in Paris from American Collections,\u00a0Jan.\u00a019\u2013Feb.\u00a016, 1930, cat.\u00a052\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Woman Looking at\u00a0Aquarium.\n\nProvidence, Rhode Island School of Design,\u00a0Modern French Art, Mar.\u00a011\u201331,\u00a01930, cat.\u00a024, as\u00a0Woman Looking at Aquarium,\u00a01910\u201317.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago,\u00a0\u201cA Century of Progress\u201d: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June\u00a01\u2013Nov.\u00a01, 1933, cat.\u00a0398, as\u00a0Woman before an Aquarium,\u00a01921.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago,\u00a0\u201cA Century of Progress\u201d: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture\u00a0for 1934, June\u00a01\u2013Nov.\u00a01,\u00a01934, cat.\u00a0352, as\u00a0Woman before an Aquarium,\u00a01921.\n\nPhiladelphia Museum of Art,\u00a0Henri Matisse: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, Apr.\u00a03\u2013May\u00a010, 1948, cat.\u00a062\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Woman Before an Aquarium,\u00a01924.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago,\u00a0Masterpiece of the Month: Woman before an Aquarium by Henri Matisse, Sept.\u00a01950, no\u00a0cat.\n\nNew York, Museum of Modern Art,\u00a0Henri Matisse, Nov.\u00a013,\u00a01951\u2013Jan.\u00a013, 1952, cat.\u00a054, as\u00a0Woman before an Aquarium, (1921); Cleveland Museum of Art, Feb.\u00a05\u2013 Mar.\u00a016, 1952; Art Institute of Chicago, Apr.\u00a01\u2013May\u00a04,\u00a01952; San Francisco Museum of Art, May\u00a022\u2013July\u00a06,\u00a01952.\n\nParis, Mus\u00e9e national d\u2019art moderne,\u00a0R\u00e9trospective Henri Matisse, July\u00a028\u2013Nov.\u00a018, 1956, cat.\u00a063\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Femme devant un Aquarium,\u00a01921.\n\nNew York, Museum of Modern Art,\u00a0Henri Matisse: A Retrospective,\u00a0Sept.\u00a024, 1992\u2013Jan.\u00a012,\u00a01993, pl.\u00a0255, as\u00a0Woman Before an Aquarium\/Femme devant un aquarium, [late1921 or\u00a01923].\n\nZurich, Kunsthaus,\u00a0Max Beckmann und Paris: Matisse, Picasso, Braque, L\u00e9ger, Rouault, Sept.\u00a025,\u00a01998\u2013Jan.\u00a03,\u00a01999, cat.\u00a083\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Frau vor einem Aquarium\/Femme devant un aquarium, 1921\/23; Saint Louis Art Museum [as\u00a0Max Beckmann and Paris: Matisse, Picasso, Braque, L\u00e9ger, Rouault], Feb.\u00a06\u2013May\u00a09, 1999, as\u00a0Woman Before a Fish Bowl,\u00a01921\/23.\n\nD\u00fcsseldorf, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen,\u00a0Henri Matisse: Figur, Farbe, Raum,\u00a0Oct.\u00a029,\u00a02005\u2013Feb.\u00a019, 2006, cat.\u00a0115\u00a0(ill.), as\u00a0Femme devant un aquarium\/Frau mit Goldfischen, 1921\u20131923; 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