Bathers with a Turtle
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Bathers with a Turtle (Baigneuses), 1907–08, oil on canvas, 71 1/2 x 87 in. (181.6 x 221 cm), Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
Bathers with a Turtle is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1907–08, in the collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum in St. Louis, Missouri.[1] 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.[2][3] Prior to that it had been in the collection of the Folkwang Museum in Essen, Germany.[4] Pulitzer purchased it at the urging of Matisse's son Pierre Matisse, in order to prevent the artwork from being destroyed, despite the profit from the auction going to the Nazis.[4]
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