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@annasophiarobb : It’s not 💩 it’s Matisse! And it has a very interesting history. The Nazis confiscated this artwork from the Folkwang Museum in Germany, 1937. Later the painting was purchased at an auction (through Matisse’s son!) by the Pulitzer’s in 1939. They donated it to the St. Louis Art Museum in 1964, and the ladies and turtle continue to live there to this day. I also love it because if you look close, you can see Matisse moved all the figures to the left and re-painted. I like seeing the artist re-work his canvas, nobody’s perfect- even the masters. 💙 “Three nude women on a featureless green beach congregate awkwardly around a brown turtle. The bathers' attentions, both to the diminutive creature on the ground and to each other, are compromised by their self-absorbed postures and lack of eye contact. Simple and abstract, this monumental composition is a radical reworking of Three Bathers, a smaller painting that Matisse completed during the previous year. The details present in the earlier work-the sailboats, the bathers' towels, and the radiant hues of Mediterranean summer- have been replaced by three strips of muted color, which represent land, water, and sky.” http://emuseum.slam.org/objects/5335