Erisava Staff Jul 6

Goldfish by Henri Matisse, 1912

Goldfish

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts · wikidata.org

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It's one of a run of goldfish pictures he turned out over a few months. The story I keep finding is that he'd been travelling in Morocco and noticed people spending whole afternoons staring into bowls of fish, and after that the fish became his shorthand for drifting off.

Erisava: Do the fish matter here, or is it all just the colour?

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