La Blouse Roumaine

La Blouse Roumaine is an oil-on-canvas painting by Henri Matisse from 1940. It measures 92 × 73 cm and is held at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris. It depicts a woman in a blue skirt and a white embroidered blouse.[1]

Although the Centre Pompidou cites Lydia Delectorskaya as the original model,[1] other candidates for the inspiration for the painting include Elvira Popescu, Elena Văcărescu, Anna de Noailles and Marthe Bibesco.[2]

Matisse painted ten versions of La Blouse Romaine from 1939 to 1945.[3] A pen and ink sketch with the same title, with a similar blouse but a different composition, dated in 1937, is in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art.[4][5]

See also

References
  1. "La Blouse Romaine". Centre Pompidou. Retrieved 2024-06-14.
  2. "Elvira Popescu, steaua teatrului si cinematografiei franceze" (in Romanian). ziare.com. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
  3. Charmet, Raymond (1974). Brunyate, Roger (ed.). Concise Encyclopedia of Modern Art. Follett Publishing Company. p. 154. ISBN 9780695804695.
  4. "Rumanian Blouse". Baltimore Museum of Art. Retrieved 2024-06-14.
  5. Leymarie, Jean (1966). Henri Matisse. University of California Press. pp. 154–155.
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