In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
The three works on this wall form a group of three paintings, known as a triptych. Although the group is commonly called the "Three Sisters Triptych," it is likely that only two sisters served as models for all nine figures in the paintings—an Italian woman named Laurette and her sister Anna. In the background of this work, Matisse depicted his own painting in progress, The Rose Marble Table (1917, Museum of Modern Art, New York). The painting-within-a-painting, which also resembles a window onto a garden, deliberately blurs the boundary between real and fictive space.
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Amedeo Modigliani — Girl with a Polka-Dot Blouse (Jeune fill
Amedeo Modigliani — Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz
Luigi Settanni — Marrakech
Amedeo Modigliani — Young woman in a yellow dress (Renée Mod
Edvard Munch — Brothel Scene
Amedeo Modigliani — Portrait of Jeanne Hébuterne
Max Beckmann — Two Ladies at the Window
Raoul Dufy — La dame en rose
Amedeo Modigliani — Red-Haired Girl
Georges Rouault — Two Ballet Girls
Jules Pascin — Two Women at a Circular Table
Hélène Perdriat — Girl with Cat
