Cat and Turtle, 1925
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/461676
I’ve been going through my photos from all my museum visits from the past few years, and came across these photos I took of a fun find from the Met. The Met’s catalog of the Robert Lehman Collection suggests that the painting was inspired in part by Matisse’s Bathers with a Turtle: “oddly, the cat in the present painting, its limbs folded inward and its haunches creating a surface patterning within a generalized form, recalls the squatting bather who interacts with a turtle in a painting by Matisse of 1908.” (Vol. 3, p. 290)
Bathers with a Turtle, 1907-8
oil on canvas
Saint Louis Museum of Art
https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/5335/
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