Henri Matisse
Blue Nude
1906
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Henri Matisse
Blue Nude
1906
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 55 1/4 in. (92.1 x 140.3 cm.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.228
During the early months of 1907 in Collioure, a town on the French Riviera, Matisse painted Blue Nude, a work that marked a pivotal point in his career. Produced at the end of his Fauvist period, this remarkable life-size nude was unprecedented in its scale and physicality. It was the first major painting Matisse executed after
the death of his artistic mentor Paul Cézanne in 1906. With its predominately blue palette and sense of solidity and form, it was his homage to Cézanne. It was also a strong reaction against the more traditional idealized nudes that were popular in the nineteenth century.
In Blue Nude the figure is vigorously painted and sculpturally modeled, and the work evokes a world conceived in terms of dynamism and flux. The painting also reflects Matisse’s admiration for African art (he was one of the first European artists to appreciate its inherent aesthetic qualities). The vibrant and sensual figure is broadly symbolic early 20th-century conceptions of Africa. Mattise was inspired both by African sculpture and by his first trip to North Africa, taken in 1906. The palms in the background are a reference to the landscape he saw in Algeria.
Matisse first exhibited Blue Nude at the 1907 Salon des Indépendants in Paris, where it was reviled by critics and attacked by the public for what they saw as its gratuitous ugliness. Leo Stein purchased the painting and later lent it to the Armory Show in New York, Chicago, and Boston in 1913 where it met with criticism, even prompting students at the Art Institute of Chicago to burn a reproduction of it in protest.
Publication References
Gertrude Stein, "Henri Matisse," "Camera Work," Special Number, August 1912, pl. 1, ill.
Royal Cortissoz, "The 'Ism' Exhibition," "New York Tribune," February 17, 1913, p. 7, ill.
"International Exhibition of Modern Art," New York: Association of American Painters and Sculptors, Inc., 1913, nos. 248, 129 (published as "The Blue Woman").
Harriet Monroe, "Art Exhibition Opens in Chicago," "Chicago Daily Tribune," March 25, 1913, p. 7 (published as "The Blue Woman").
"Cubist Art Exhibit ends 'At the Stake,'" The Chicago Record-Herald, Thursday, April 17, 1913, n.p. (published as "The Blue Lady").
Kenyon Cox, "Cubists and Futurists are Making Insanity Pay," "The New York Times," March 16, 1913, p. SM1.
Marcel Sembat, "Henri Matisse," Paris: Gaston Gallimard, 1920, p. 35, ill. (published as L'Odalisque 1901").
Marius de Zayas Gallery, New York, "Paintings by Matisse," December 6, 1920 - December 25, 1920.
"Complete Matisse seen in an Exhibit," "The Art News" March 1, 1924, vol. XXII, no. 21, p. 2 (published as "A Reclining Nude").
Joseph Brummer "Exhibition of Works by Henri Matisse," New York: Joseph Brummer Gallery, 1924, no. 2, n.p. (published as "The Blue Woman").
Amédée Ozenfant and Pierre Jeanneret, "La Peinture Moderne," Paris: Les Éditions G. Crès & Cie, 1925, p. 49, ill.
"Quinn Memorial Greatly Modified and Enlarged," "Art News," vol. XXIV, no. 14, January 9, 1926, p. 1 (published as "Nude Reclining").
"Catalogue des Tableaux Modernes, Aquarelles, Gouaches, Dessins par Paul Cézanne, André Derain, Raoul Dufy, Roger de la Fresnaye, Juan Gris, Marie Laurencin, Henri Matisse, Camille Pissarro, Odilon Redon, Georges Rouault, Henri Rousseau, A. Dunoyer de Segonzac provenant de la Collection John Quinn," Hôtel Drouot, Paris, October 28, 1926, lot #61, ill. (published as "Femme Nue Couchée").
"520,000 Francs for Rousseau in Paris," "Art News," vol. XXV, no. 5, November 6, 1926, p. 3 (published as "A Nude by Matisse").
"John Quinn, 1870-1925: Collection of Paintings, Water Colors, Drawings & Sculpture," Huntington, NY: Pidgeon Hill Press, 1926, p. 11, p. 72, ill. (published as "Nude Reclining").
Luc Benoist, "Les Ventes," "Beaux-Arts: Revue d'Information Artistique Paraissant Deux Fois Par Mois," November 1, 1926, vol. 4, p. 288 (published as "la Femme nue couchée").
Ruth Green Harris, "Autumn Activities at the Paris Art Galleries," "The New York Times," November 21, 1926, p. X11 (published as "Femme nue couché").
Forbes Watson, "The John Quinn Collection, Part III" "The Arts," February 1926, vol. IX, no. 2, p. 90, n.p., ill. (published as "Nude Reclining").
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Cone Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1930, p.6, no. 33 (published as "Nude").
"Henri-Matisse," Basel, Switzerland: Kunsthalle Basel, 1931, p. 9, no. 15 (published as "Le Nu bleu")
"Henri-Matisse," Paris: Galeries Georges Petit, 1931, p. 15, no. 17, ill. (Published as Le Nu Bleu").
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., "Henri Matisse Retrospective Exhibition," New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1931, pp. 14, 21, 38, no. 15, ill.
E. Tériade, "Jeunesse!," "Cahiers d'Art," 1931, no. 1, p. 16, ill. (published as "Nu Couché").
Albert C. Barnes and Violette de Mazia, "The Art of Henri-Matisse," Merion, PA: The Barnes Foundation Press, 1933, pp. xii, 249, 434, no. 32, ill.
Gertrude Stein, "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas," New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company," 1933, p. 21.
"Baltimore Sees 52 Works by Henri Matisse," "Art Digest," September 1, 1934, vol. VIII, no. 20, p. 20.
"Cone Group on View as Whole," "The Baltimore Sun," May 13, 1934, p. 14.
Etta Cone, "The Cone Collection of Baltimore-Maryland," Baltimore: Etta Cone, 1934, p. 24, pl. 32, ill. (published as "Le Nu Blue").
"Souvenirs du temps des Fauves," "Beaux-Arts," August 2, 1935, p. 2, ill. (published as "Le Nu bleu").
Raymond Escholier, "Henri Matisse 68 Reproductions dont 8 en Couleurs," Paris: Librairie Floury, 1937, p. 27, ill. (published as "Nu Bleu, Souvenir de Biskra").
Christian Zervos, "Histoire de l'Art Contemporain," Paris: Editions Cahiers d'Art, 1938, p. 148, ill. (published as "Souvenir d'Algérie") .
Baltimore Museum of Art, "A Century of Baltimore Collecting 1840-1940," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1941, p. 83, 116.
Leo Swane, "Matisse," Stockholm: P.A. Norstedts & Söners, 1944, p. 61, fig. 13, ill. (published as "Den blå modellen/Le nu bleu").
Louis Aragon, Henry Clifford, and Henri Matisse, "Henri Matisse: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture," Philadelphia: The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1948, p. 37, no. 15, ill.
"Baltimore Inherits the Cone Collection of Modern Art," "The Art Digest," October 1, 1949, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 9, 24, ill. p. 9.
George Boas, Adelyn D. Breeskin, and J.G. D'Arcy Paul, "Selections from the Cone Collection," "News of The Baltimore Museum of Art," October 1949, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 8, 14, 27, ill. p. 27.
"Diamond Jubilee Exhibition: Masterpieces of Painting," Philadelphia: The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1950, cat. no. 97, ill.
"Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta, Collectors," "Art News," January 1950, vol. XLVIII, no. 9, p. 40.
Doris Brian, "The Baltimore Museum's Cone Collection: A Pointed Star," "The Art Digest," January 15, 1950, vol. 24, no. 8, p. 21.
"Pictures for a Picture of Gertrude Stein as a Collector and Writer on Art and Artists," New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951, pp. 29-30, no. 18.
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., "Matisse: His Art and His Public," New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1951, pp. Table of Contents Part III Section V, 49, 58, 83, 84, 94-95, 96, 99, 100, 150, 180, 199, 201, 218, 262, 336, 532, 537, 557, 575, 576, ill. p. 336.
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., "Matisse, Picasso, and the Crisis of 1907," "Magazine of Art," May 1951, vol. 44, no. 4, p. 166, ill.
Clive Bell, "Modern French Painting: The Cone Collection," Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1951, pp. 4-5, 11, 13, ill. p. 5.
Henry McBride, "Pictures for a Picture of Gertrude," "Art News," February 1951, vol. XLIX, no. 10, p. 18, ill.
Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Monroe Wheeler, and Alfred H. Barr, Jr., "Henri Matisse," New York: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1951, pp. 5, 9, 16, no. 16, ill.
"Henri Matisse," "The New York Times," November 5, 1954, p. 20.
"Man and His Years," "News of The Baltimore Museum of Art," October 1954, vol. XVIII, no. 1, p. 11, ill.
"Man and His Years," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1954, pp. 21, 38, no. 120, ill.
Gaston Diehl, "Henri Matisse," Paris: Éditions Pierre Tisné, 1954, pp. 49, 50, 136, 154, 161, pl. 41. ill. (published as "Nu Bleu").
"Matisse: A Rare Collection Record," "Vogue," March 1, 1955, vol. 125, pp. 132, 135, ill. p. 135.
"Museum Opens 25-Year Show," "The Baltimore Sun," Sunday, May 29, 1955, p. 10.
Charlotte Devree, "Two Victorians in Modern Art," "The New York Times," January 16, 1955, p. SM24.
Howard Devree, "About Art and Artists," "The New York Times," January 25, 1955, p. 23.
Bennard B. Perlman, "The Baltimore Museum's 25th Anniversary," "Arts Digest," May 15, 1955, vol. 29, no. 16, pp. 15, 18, ill. p. 18.
Gertrude Rosenthal, "A Picture Book: 200 Objects in the Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1955, p. 60, ill.
Baltimore Museum of Art Art. Cone Collection: A Handbook with a Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1955, cat. no. 43, page 26.
Kenneth Clark, "The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form," New York: Bollingen Foundation, 1956, p. 357, fig. 286, ill.
Sidney Simon, "Expressionism 1900-1955," Minneapolis: The Walker Art Center, 1956, n.p., ill.
"Museum Art Travels," "News of The Baltimore Museum of Art," June 1956, vol. XIX, no. 5, p. 16, ill.
Raymond Escholier, "Matisse, ce Vivant," Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1956, p. 107 (published as "Nu bleu").
Sam Hunter, "Henri Matisse 1869-1954. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Miniatures," New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1956, no. 4, ill.
Gertrude Rosenthal, "Matisse's Reclining Figures: A Theme and its Variations," "News of The Baltimore Museum of Art," February 1956, vol.XIX, no. 3, pp. 11-13, fig. 2, ill.
Sidney Simon, "Expressionism 1900-1955," Minneapolis: The Walker Art Center, 1956, n.p, ill.
"The Cone Wing," "News of The Baltimore Museum of Art," March 1957, p. 6, ill.
Leslie Judd Portner, "Baltimore Museum Opens New Cone Wing," "The Christian Science Monitor," March 23, 1957, p. 10.
Aline B. Saarinen, "The Proud Possessors: The Lives, Times and Tastes of Some Adventurous American Art Collectors," New York: Random House, 1958, pp. 184-185, 191, 216, 237.
Frederic Taubes, "Modern Art Sweet or Sour," New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1958, pp. 64, 67-68, p. 64, ill.
John Malcolm Brinnin, "The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and Her World," Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1959, p. 180.
Jacques Lassaigne, "Matisse," Geneva: Skira, 1959, pp. 48-49, 136, p.49, ill.
Raymond Escholier, "Matisse: A Portrait of the Artist and the Man," New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1960, pp. 9, 12, 15, 43, 93, 223, no. 7, ill. (published as "Le nu bleu").
Raymond Escholier, "Matisse: From the Life," London: Faber and Faber, 1960, pl. 7, ill. (published as "Le nu bleu [Souvenir de Biskra]").
Jean Grenier, "La Révolution de la Couleur," "XXe Siècle," vol. XXII, no. 15, Noël 1960, p. 12, ill. (published as "Souvenir de Biskra. Nu bleu").
Eloise Spaeth, "American Art Museums and Galleries," New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960, pp. 49-50, p. 49, ill.
"A Tribute to Adelyn D. Breeskin," "News of The Baltimore Museum of Art," vol. xxv, no. 4, Summer 1962, p. 7, ill.
Barbara Pollack, "The Collectors: Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta Cone," Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1962, pp. 99, 189, 191, 199, 216, 218, 252, 256, 260, 265. (Published as "The Blue Nude").
"News of The Baltimore Museum of Art," Summer-Autumn, 1963, vols. XXVI-XXVII, nos. 4, 1, p. 11, ill.
Jean Selz, "Matisse," Paris: Flammarion, 1964, p. 50, ill. (published as "Nu Bleu").
René Huyghe, ed., "Larousse Encyclopedia of Modern Art from 1800 to the Present Day," New York: Prometheus Press, 1965, pp. 282-283, no. 761, ill.
Herbert and Marjorie Katz, "Museums, U.S.A.," New York: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1965, p. 31.
Gelett Burgess, "The Wild Men of Paris," "Architectural Record," July 1966, p. 239, ill.
Donald E. Gordon, "Kirchner in Dresden," "The Art Bulletin," date?,vol. XLVIII, nos. 3-4, p. 342, no. 32, ill.
Lawrence Gowing, "Henri Matisse 64 Paintings," New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966, pp. 14, 27, 61, no. 13, ill.
Kent Roberts Greenfield, "The Museum: Its First Half Century," "Annual I," 1966, p. 64, p. 67, ill.
Calvin Tomkins, "The World of Marcel Duchamp 1887," New York: Time Incorporated, 1966, pp. 46-47, p. 47, ill.
Baltimore Museum of Art. Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings in the Cone Collection. Revised edition. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1967, p. 24, no. 40.
Frederick Brill, "Matisse," New York: Paul Hamlyn, 1967, pp. 5, 12, 34-35, pl. 12, ill.
Jean Guichard-Meili, "Matisse," New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967, pp. 167, 250, no. 161, ill.
Jean Guichard-Meili, "Henri Matisse, Son Oeuvre, Son Univers," Paris: Fernand Hazan Editeur, 1967, pp. 169-170, 248, fig. 161, ill. (published as "Nu bleu").
Jean Leymarie, "Il Fauvismo: La Piena Maturità," "L'Arte Moderna,"1967, no. 26, vol. III, p. 308, ill. (published as "Nudo blu").
H.H. Arnason, "History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture," New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1968, pp. 103-104, 109, 654, fig. 154, ill.
Alan Bowness, "Matisse and the Nude," New York: The New American Library, 1968, p. 19, pl. 5, ill.
Charles Chetham, "Henri Matisse's Bathers with a Turtle," in "Museum Monographs I," St. Louis: City Art Museum, 1968, p. 9f, p. 14 ill.
Erwin O. Christensen, "A Guide to Art Museums in the United States," New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1968, p. 113, fig. 250, ill.
James R. Mellow, "The Stein Salon was the First Museum of Modern Art," "The New York Times Magazine," December 1, 1968, p. SM48.
Kenjiro Okamoto, "L'Art du Monde, Bonnard/Matisse, vol. 16," Paris: Kawade Shob?, 1968, p. 108, no. 42, ill. (published as "Nu bleu").
B.L. Reid, "The Man from New York: John Quinn and his Friends," New York: Oxford University Press, 1968, pp. 660, 701, n.p., ill.
Gertrude Rosenthal, "From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1968, pp. 148-149, no. 125, ill.
Edward B. Henning, "Fan, Salt Box, and Melon," "Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art," October 1969, vol. 56, no. 8, pp. 273, 275, fig. 5, ill.
John Russell, "The World of Matisse 1869-1954," New York: Time-Life Books, 1969, pp. 71, 75, 76, 105.
"Mageløse Matisse," "Billed Bladet," 1970, p. 23, ill. (published as "Blå model").
Finsen, Hanne. Henri Matisse - udstillingen på Statens Museum for Kunst. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Ministry of Cultural Affairs, 1970, p. 5 (published as “Blå model”).
Edward Burns, ed., "Gertrude Stein on Picasso," New York: Liveright, 1970, p. 37, ill.
Pierre Descargues, "Matisse Parmi Les Expressionistes," "Connaissance des Arts," June 1970, pp. 104-105, p. 105, ill. (published as "Nu bleu").
Jean-Louis Ferrier, "1907: 'immensité intime' et simplification du tableau," "XXe siècle: Hommage à Henri Matisse," 1970, p. 39, ill. (published as "Nu bleu").
Jean Genêt, "Letter from Paris," "New Yorker," May 30, 1970, p. 86.
George Heard Hamilton, "19th and 20th Century Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture," New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1970, pp. 183-184, 474, pl. 28, ill.
The Museum of Modern Art, "Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family," New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1970, pp. 80, 161, pl. 17, ill.
Pierre Schneider and Tamara Préaud, "Henri Matisse: Exposition du Centenaire," Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1970, p. 73, no. 84 (published as "Nu Bleu").
National Gallery of Denmark, "Matisse: A Retrospective Exhibition," Copenhagen: Ministry for Cultural Affairs, 1970, cat. no. 22, ill. (published as "Blå model").
Louis Aragon, "Henri Matisse, Roman I," Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1971, pp. 65, 347, pl. VII, ill. (published as "Nu bleu").
Massimo Carrà and Mario Luzi, "L'opera di Matisse dalla rivolta 'fauve' all'intimismo, 1904-1928," Milan: Rizzoli, 1971, pp. 89, 90, 113, no. 97, tav. XV ill. (published as "Nudo Blu").
Douglas Cooper, "The Cubist Epoch," New York: Phaidon Press Limited in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971, pp. 22, 28, 67, 316, pl. 3, ill.
Douglas Cooper, Irene Gordon, Lucile M. Golson, Ellen B. Hirschland, Leon Katz and William Voss Elder, III, "Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1971, p. 15, 16, ill. p. 16.
Bennard Perlman, "Art," "Baltimore Magazine," April 1971, p. 82.
Aragon, Louis. Henri Matisse: A Novel, vol. I. First American edition. Translated by Jean Stewart. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972, p. 65, plate VII, ill.
Association of American Painters and Sculptors, "The Armory Show," New York: Arno Press, 1972, p. 36, no. 411. (Published as "La Femme Bleu")
Albert E. Elsen, "The Sculpture of Henri Matisse," New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1972, pp. 71-72, no. 88, ill.
John Hallmark Neff, "An Early Ceramic Triptych by Henri Matisse," "The Burlington Magazine," December 1972, vol. CXIV, no. 837, p. 851, no. 78, ill.
Lambert, Susan. Matisse Lithographs. London: Victoria & Albert Museum, [1972], page 7.
Edward T. Cone, "The Miss Etta Cones, the Steins, and M'sieu Matisse: A Memoir," "American Scholar," Spring 1973, pp. 442, 446.
Jean-Luc Daval, "Journal de l'Art Moderne 1884-1914," Geneva: Éditions d'Art Albert Skira, 1973, pp. 201-202, 301, 309, p. 201 ill. (published as "Nu bleu").
Jack D. Flam, "Matisse on Art," London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1973, pp. 4, 12, 24, 49, 199, fig. 18, ill. (published as "Nu bleu").
Michael Hoog, "Les 'Demoiselles d'Avignon' et la Peinture à Paris en 1907-1908," "Gazette des Beaux-Arts," October 1973, tome LXXXII, p. 213, fig. 8, ill. (published as "Nu bleu").
John Jacobus, "Henri Matisse," New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1973, pp. 22, 24-25, fig. 14, ill.
"Reviews and Previews - Cone Collection," "Art News," January 1974, vol. 73, no. 1, p. 95.
"Cone Collection from the Baltimore Museum of Art: A Benefit Exhibition at Wildenstein," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1974, no. 16.
Jane Harrison Cone, "Re-Installation of the Cone Collection," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1974, n.p.
Yusuke Nakahara and Ichiro Fukuzawa, "Pikaso to Machisu: rittaiha to yaj?ha, (check) Grand Collection of World Art, vol. 23," Tokyo: Kodasha Ltd., 1974, p. 140, pl. 55, ill.
Janet Hobhouse, "Everybody Who Was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein," New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1975, pp. 47, 56-57, 242, p. 57, ill.
David Bourdon, "Color Runs Wild at the Modern," "The Village Voice," April 12, 1976, p. 109, ill.
John Elderfield, "The 'Wild Beasts:' Fauvism and Its Affinities," New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1976, pp. 10, 117, ill. p. 117.
Theodore Reff, "Matisse: Meditations on a Statuette and Goldfish," "Arts Magazine," November 1976, vol. 51, no. 3, p. 112, fig. 8, ill.
H. H. Arnason, "History of Modern Art; Painting, Sculpture, Architecture," Englewood Cliffs, N.J. and New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc. and Harry N. Abrams, 1977, pp. 103, 104, 109, 654, fig. 154, ill.
Pontus Hulten, "Paris-New York," Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, 1977, pp. 211, 285-286, p. 285, ill. (published as "La Femme Bleue/Le Nu Bleu").
William Rubin, ed., "Cézanne: The Late Work," New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977, p. 169, ill.
John Russell, "'Paris-New York': Century of Modern Art," "The New York Times," June 14, 1977, p. 48.
Izerghina, Antonina Nikolaevna. Henri Matisse: Paintings and Sculptures in Soviet Museums. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, ©1978; 1986, p. 159 (published as “Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra)”).
Dickran Tashjian, "William Carlos Williams and the American Scene, 1920-1940," New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1978, pp. 30-31, 33, 164, p. 33, ill.
Elderfield, John. Matisse in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Including Remainder-Interest and Promised Gifts. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1978, p. 183, fig. 24.
Judith Zilczer, "'The Noble Buyer:' John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde," Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, pp. 50, 117-118, 172, no. 47, ill.
Lawrence Gowing, "Matisse," New York: Oxford University Press, 1979, pp. 74-75, 101, 208, 215, no. 87, ill. (published as "Le nu bleu").
Judith Zilczer, "The Dispersal of the John Quinn Collection," "Archives of American Art Journal," 1979, vol. 19, no. 3, n.p.
William Rubin, ed."Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective," New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1980, p. 86, ill.
Edward T. Cone, "The Blue Nude and Me," "University: A Princeton Magazine," Winter 1981, no. 84, n.p., ill.
Katherine Hanna and Marsha Semmel, "Small Paintings from Famous Collections," Cincinnati: The Taft Museum, 1981, n.p.
Felix Baumann, "Henri Matisse," Zürich and Düsseldorf: Kunsthaus Zürich and Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1982, pp. 32, 43, 45 (published as "Nu bleu").
Pierre Daix, "Cubists and Cubism," New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1982, pp. 18, 29, 31-34, 39, 43, 118, 169, p. 29, ill.
Pierre Schneider, Massimo Carrà, and Xavier Deryng, "Tout l'Oeuvre Peint de Matisse, 1904-1928," Paris: Flammarion, 1982, pp. 9, 89, 90, 115, no. 97, pl. XV, ill. (published as "Ne Bleu [Souvenir de Biskra]").
Israel Rosen, "The Cone Sisters: Myths, Realities and Some Conjectures," "Helicon Nine: the Journal of Women's Arts and Letters," Winter 1983, no. 9, p. 84.
Jacobus, John M. Henri Matisse. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1983, page 16.
William R. Johnston, "The Taste of Maryland: Art Collecting in Maryland 1800-1934," Baltimore: The Walters Art Gallery, 1984, pp. 48, 49.
Michael P. Mezzatesta, "Henri Matisse Sculptor/Painter: A Formal Analysis of Selected Works," Fort Worth: Kimbell Art Museum, 1984, pp. 61-62, fig. 32, ill.
William Rubin, ed., "'Primitivism' in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern, vol. 1," New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1984, pp. 224-229, p. 224, ill.
Pierre Schneider, "Matisse," Paris: Flammarion, 1984, pp. 97, 158, 251, 267, 330, 348-349, 381, 394, 420, 468, 519, 541, 558, 567, 641, 731, 747, p. 251, ill.
Mary Anne Stevens, ed., "The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse. The Allure of North Africa and the Near East," Washington, DC: The National Gallery of Art, 1984, pp. 7, 188-189, no. 76, ill.
Nicholas Watkins, "Matisse," Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1984, pp. 46, 75-83, 131, 167, 180, 234, 237, pl. 55, ill.
Monod-Fontaine, Isabelle. The Sculpture of Henri Matisse. London: Arts Council of Great Britain in association with Thames and Hudson, 1984, page 12, fig. 6 (published as “Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra)”).
Sam Hunter and John Jacobus, "Modern Art: Painting/Sculpture/Architecture, Second Edition," New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1985, pp. 115, 407, fig. 187, ill.
Brenda Richardson, "Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta: The Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1985, 8, 30, 94, 101, 102, 107, 112, 114, 115, 117, 134, 159-60, 176, pp. 8, 30, 114, ill.
H.H. Arnason, "History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography, 3rd Edition," New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986, pp. 103, 106, 110, 135, 136, 148, 256, 733, pl. 36, ill.
Jack Flam, "Matisse The Man and His Art 1869-1918," Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986, pp.7, 167, 191-197, 217, 260, 310, 343, 362, 386, 491n.10, 11, 17, 20, 492n.37, 515 fig. 188, ill.
Eiko Ishioka and Yoshiaki Tono, "Art Gallery 10 Matisse," Tokyo: Shueisha, 1986, n.p., ill.
John Russell, "New Exhibition Illuminates the Greatness that was Matisse," "The New York Times," October 26, 1986, n.p.
Bennett Schiff, "Henri Matisse's Period in Nice as a 'Hewer of Light,'" "Smithsonian," November 1986, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 83, 86, p. 83, ill.
Nicholas Serota and Rachel Kirby, eds., "In Tandem: The Painter-Sculptor in the Twentieth Century," London: Trustees of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1986, pp. 20-22, p. 20, ill.
Izerghina, A. Henri Matisse: Paintings and Sculptures in Soviet Museums. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1986, 1978, page 159 (published as “Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra)”).
Roger Benjamin, "Matisse's 'Notes of a Painter': Criticism, Theory, and Context, 1891-1908," Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1987, pl. 10, ill. (published as "Nu bleu").
Jack Cowart and Dominique Fourcade, "Henri Matisse The Early Years in Nice, 1916-1930," New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987, pp. 246, 250 (published as "Nu bleu").
Donald E. Gordon, "Expressionism: Art and Idea," New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987, pp. viii, 73-74, 262, fig. 51, ill.
Jacqueline and Maurice Guillaud, "Matisse: Le Rythme et la Ligne," New York: Guillaud Editions, 1987, pp. 23, 307, no. 36, ill. (published as "Nu Bleu Souvenir de Biskra").
Peter Wollen, "Fashion/Orientalism/the Body," "New Formations" Spring, 1987, no. I, pp. 23, 160, p. 23, ill.
Milton W. Brown, "The Story of the Armory Show," New York: Abbeville Press, 1988, pp. 29, 210, 292-293, 347, back cover, pl. 6, ill.
J.D. McClatchy, ed., "Poets on Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-Century Poets," Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988, pp. 24, 26-27, p. 24, ill.
Helene Seckel, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," vol. 1, Paris, Musee Picasso, January 1988, p. 9, ill.
Gérard Durozoi. Matisse. Paris: Hazan, 1989, page 63 (published as “Nu Bleu (souvenir de Biskra)
"Events," "The Baltimore Museum of Art Members Calendar," September 1989, n.p, ill.
Brenda Richardson, "Diamond of the Month," "The Baltimore Museum of Art Members Calendar," September 1989, n.p., ill.
Hugh Honour, "The Image of the Black in Western Art: From the American Revolution to World War I, vol. IV," Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989, pp. 233-235, 236, 238, 300, fig. 176, ill.
H. Wayne Morgan, "Keepers of Culture: The Art-Thought of Kenyon Cox, Royal Cortissoz and Frank Jewett Mather, Jr.," Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 1989, n.p., ill.
Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, "Matisse Le Rêve ou les Belles Endormies," Paris: Adam Biro, 1989, p. 18 (published as "Nu bleu, souvenir de Biskra").
Monod-Fontaine, Isabelle. Matisse: Œuvres de Henri Matisse. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1989, page 320, fig. d (published as “Nu bleu, souvenir de Biskra”).
Brenda Richardson, "Diamond of the Month: September 1989," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1989, n.p, ill.
Renate Stendhal, "Gertrude Stein: Ein Leben in Bildern und Texten," Zurich: Arche, 1989, p. 65, ill.
Cynthia Maris Dantzic, "Design Dimensions: An Introduction to the Visual Surface," Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1990, pp. 101, 318, fig. 5.29, ill.
Judi Freeman, "The Fauve Landscape," New York: Abbeville Press, 1990, pp. 208-209, pl. 221, ill.
Jean Selz, "Matisse," New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990, pp. 27, 28, 96, p. 28, ill.
Judith Zilczer, "The Dispersal of the John Quinn Collection," "Archives of American Art Journal," 1990, vol. 30, no. 1 /4 , pp. 37, 38, ill. p. 38.
Terence Diggory, "William Carlos Williams and the Ethics of Painting," Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991, no. 20, ill.
Alicia Faxon, "The Shock of Recognition," "Art New England," December 1991/January 1992, p. 13, ill.
Xavier Girard, "Les chefs-d'oeuvre du Musée Matisse," Dijon: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, 1991, p. 124, ill. (Published as "Nu Bleu")
Bernier, Rosamond. Matisse, Picasso, Miró: As I Knew Them. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991, page 12.
"Henri Matisse: A Retrospective," "The Museum of Modern Art Members Calendar," September 1992, vol. 13, no. 8, p. 2, ill.
Roger Benjamin, "Henri Matisse," New York: Rizzoli Art Series, 1992, pl. 4, ill.
John Elderfield, "Henri Matisse: A Retrospective," New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1992, pp. 30-32, 135, 136, 167, 238, 292, 295, 477, fig. 7, no. 93, ill.
James D. Herbert, "Fauve Painting: The Making of Cultural Politics," New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992, pp. 146-148, 150, 158, 160-161, 166, 170, 173, 223, p. 147, ill.
Michael Kimmelman, "The Many Moods of Henri Matisse," "The New York Times," September 20, 1992, p. H29.
Joachim Pissarro, "Exhibition Reviews: 'Seeing, Touching, being touched by Matisse,'" "Apollo," December 1992, vol. CXXXVI, no. 370, p. 395, ill.
Wappenschmidt, Kathrin. Henri Matisse: sein plastisches werk [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1992 (dissertation for Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel 1991), p. 357 (published as “Nu bleu – Souvenir de Biskra”).
Karen Wilkin, "Matisse: A Dialogue between Sculpture and Painting," "Sculpture Review," 1992, vol. XXXXI, no. 4, p. 9, ill.
Néret, Gilles. Matisse. [Place of publication not identified]: Konecky & Konecky, 1993, p. 154, no. 237 (published as “Swan”).
"The New Yorker," July 19, 1993, vol. LXIX, no. 22, cover page, ill.
"El Armory Show," "Saber Ver," September-October 1993, no. 12, p. 8, ill. (published as "Desnudo azul").
"Le Grand Atlas de l'Art vol. II," Paris: Encyclopaedia Universalis, 1993, pp. 538, 598, p. 538, ill. (published as "Nu blue souvenir de Biskra").
"Modern-Art Exhibit Typifies Symbiotic Relationship," "Beaumont Enterprise," December 17, 1993, p.4.
"People and Place," "The Baltimore Sun," February 25, 1993, p. A2.
"Strike delays Matisse Show," "The Baltimore Sun," February 25, 1993, p. 2A.
"Van Gogh to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masters from the Cone Collection, The Baltimore Museum of Art," "MFA Today," November/December 1993, p. 3.
Susan Chadwick, "An Eye for Art," "The Houston Post," November 21, 1993, p. 16.
Susan Chadwick, "MFA Makes Room for Baltimore Art Treasures," "The Houston Post," June 2, 1993, p. D1.
Susan Chadwick, "Sisters Collected Stunning Works of Impressionists," "The Houston Post," November 27, 1993, p. F-1.
John Dorsey, "Some Cone Pieces to be Lent Out," "The Baltimore Sun," May 29, 1993, p. D3.
William Drozdiak, "Matisse's Grand Homecoming," "The Washington Post," March 24, 1993, p. B10 (published as "Nu Bleu: Souvenir de Biskra").
Dominique Fourcade, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Claude Laugier, Éric de Chassey and Yve-Alain Bois, "Henri Matisse 1904-1917," Paris: Éditions du Centre Georges Pompidou, 1993, pp. 206-207, 435-439, no. 42, ill. (published as "Nu blue: souvenir de Biskra").
Xavier Girard, "Matisse: Une Splendeur Inouïe," Paris: Gallimard, 1993, pp. 51, 52, 54-55, 57, 173, p. 51, ill. (published as "Nu bleu").
Charles Harrison, Francis Frascina and Gill Perry, "Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century," New Have: Yale University Press, 1993, p. 59, pl. 54, ill. (published as "Nu bleu").
Hayden Herrera, "Matisse: A Portrait," New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993, pp. 68-69, 109, 217, p. 68, ill.
Patricia C. Johnson, "MFA to Exhibit Cone Collection," "The Houston Chronicle," June 2, 1993, Section D.
Patricia C. Johnson, "Two Sisters and Their Art," "The Houston Chronicle," November 21, 1993, p. 9.
Susie Kalil, "The Joy of Color, the Ecstasy of Form," "Houston Press," December 23, 1993, p. 27.
Kay Larson, "Art/ The Name Game," "New York," Art, February 15, 1993, p. 109.
Bennard Perlman, "Many Miss Museum's Major Matisse Masterpiece," "Maryland Maturity," March 1993, p. 11, ill.
Carol Vogel, "The Art Market," "The New York Times," June 4, 1993, n.p.
Bruce Altshuler, "The Avant-Garde in Exhibition: New Art in the 20th Century," New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994, pp. 60-61, p. 61, ill.
Christopher Butler, "Early Modernism: Literature, Music, and Painting in Europe, 1900-1916," Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994, pp. 106-107, fig. 21, ill.
Frank Milner, "Henri Matisse," London: Bison Books Ltd., 1994, pp. 50-51, ill.
Jill Snyder, "Against the Stream: Milton Avery, Adolphe Gottlieb, and Mark Rothko in the 1930s," Katonah, NY: Katonah Museum of Art, 1994, p. 9, fig. 4, ill.
John Elderfield, "Pleasuring Painting: Matisse's Feminine Representations," new York: Thames and Hudson, 1995, pp. 12, 63, fig. 4, ill.
Jay M. Fisher, "Drawings from the Collection of Claribel and Etta Cone at the Baltimore Museum of Art," "Drawing The International Review published by The Drawing Society," May-June 1995, vol. XVII, no. 1, p. 4.
Jack Flam, "Matisse on Art," Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995, fig. 7, ill.
Andrew Patner, "Loyal Citizens of Baltimore," "Art & Antiques," June 1995, vol. XVIII, no. 6, pp. 66-67, 69, p. 67, ill.
Caroline Turner and Roger Benjamin, "Matisse," Sydney: Queensland Art Gallery and Art Exhibitions Australia Limited, 1995, p. 148, fig. 7, ill.
Bernard Zürcher, "Les Fauves," Paris: Hazan, 1995, pp. 131, 139, 144, 173, 189, 218, p. 131, ill.
Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, "Les Fauves ou la couleur libérée," Paris: Centre national de documentation pedagogiqu, 1995, b&w ill. p. 19.
Liz Dawtrey, Toby Jackson, Mary Masterton, Pam Meecham and Paul Wood, eds., "Investigating Modern Art," London: Yale University Press in association with the Open University, 1996, pp. 58, 183, fig. 46, ill.
Elderfield, John. Pleasuring Painting: Matisse's Feminine Representations. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1996, p. 12, no. 4 (published as “Blue Nude: Memory of Biskra”), ill.
Matisu no rozario reihaido = Henri Matisse, La Chapelle du Rosaire, vol. 2. Kyoto: Korinsha, 1996, plate 25 (published as “Nu Bleu:Souvenir de Biskra”).
Philippe Monsel, "Fauvisme," Paris: Cercle d'Art, 1996, p. 63, fig. 12, ill. (Published as "Nu bleu")
John Richardson, "A Life of Picasso, Vol. II, 1907-1917," New York: Random House, 1996, p. 37, ill.
Nobuyuki Senzoku and Akira Tomita, "Matisse and Modern Masters from the Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art," Tokyo: Brain Trust Inc., 1996, cat. no. 6, pp. 14, 43, 52-53,149, 153, 158, no. 6, ill.
Brenda Wineapple, "Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein," New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996, pp. 232, 276, 279, 315, 362, 378, 502, ill. p. 232.
The Collection of Victor and Sally Ganz, Christie's, New York, November 10, 1997, lot number 33, p. 131, fig. 11, ill. (published as "Nu bleu").
William H. Gerdts, "The Color of Modernism: The American Fauves," New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 1997, p. 17, fig. 5, ill.
Dennis J. Sporre, "Reality Through the Arts, Third Edition" Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997, p. 359, fig. 13.16, ill.
Claudia Beltramo Ceppi Zevi, "Matisse: 'La Révélation m'est venue de l'Orient" Firenze: Artificio, 1997, pp. 80, 83, 90, ill. p. 80. (published as "Nudo blu").
Yves-Alain Bois, "Matisse's Bathers with a Turtle," "The Saint Louis Art Museum Bulletin," Fall, 1998, vol. XXII, Number 3, pp. 14-15, fig. 1.9, ill.
Yve-Alain Bois, "Matisse and Picasso," Paris: Flammarion, 1998, pp. 29, 65, 105, 169, 171, 192, 266, fig. 156, ill.
Alfred Corn, "Henri Matisse: Sculpture," "Artnews," December 1998, vol. 97, no. 11, p. 149.
John Golding, "Caro at the National Gallery: Sculpture from Painting," London: National Gallery Publications, 1998, pp. 44, 46, fig. 50, ill.
Ingrid Schaffner, "The Essential Henri Matisse," New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998, pp. 48- 49, 50-51, 68, 78, ill. p. 49.
Ron Manheim, "Evocatie door Deformatie: Expressionisme in Duitsland 1908-1924," Heerlen: Open Universiteit, 1998, p. 28, fig. 39, ill. (published as "Blauw naakt").
Hilary Spurling, "The Unknown Matisse. A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1908," New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998, p. xv, fig. 27, ill.
Internationale Tage Ingelheim, "Die Explosion der Farbe: Fauvismus und Expressionismus: 1905 - 1911" Mainz, Germany: Hermann Schmidt, 1998, pp. 96, 103, p. 96, ill. (published as "Nu blue: Souvenir de Biskra").
Flam, Jack D. Henri Matisse: Sculpture. New York: C&M Arts, 1998, fig. 3.
"Matisse et l'Antiquité," Nice, France: Musée Matisse, 1999, n.p., ill. (published as "Nu bleu").
Jody Blake, "Le Tumulte Noir: Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris, 1900-1930," University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University, 1999, pp. 14-15, 33-35, fig. 8, ill.
John O'Brian, "Ruthless Hedonism: The American Reception of Matisse," Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999, pp. 17, 18, 81, 138, 279, fig. 6, ill.
Suzanne Pagé, Juliette Laffon, Gérard Audinet and Jacqueline Munck, "Le Fauvisme ou 'l'Épreuve du feu' Éruption de la Modernité en Europe," Paris: Éditions des Musées de la Ville de Paris, 1999, pp. 255, 436, 474, no. 120, ill. (published as "Nu Bleu: Souvenir de Biskra").
Alaoui, Brahim (curator). Le Maroc de Matisse: exposition présentée [dans le cadre du Temps du Maroc en France] à l'Institut du monde arabe du 19 octobre 1999 au 30 janvier 2000. Paris: Gallimard; Institut du monde arabe, 1999, page 35, fig. 7.
Néret, Gilles. Henri Matisse. Köln; New York: Taschen, [1999], page 23.
Hollis Taggart Galleries and the Woodmere Art Museum, "The Orchestration of Color: The Paintings of Arthur B. Carles," New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2000, p. 68, fig. 52, ill.
Sona K. Johnston and William R. Johnston, "The Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse," London: Scala Publishers, 2000, pp. 31, 156.
Percy North, "Bringing Cubism to America: Max Weber and Pablo Picasso," "American Art," Fall 2000, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 68, 76.
Dennis J. Sporre, "The Creative Impulse: An Introduction to the Arts, Fifth Edition," Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall Inc., 2000, p. 521, no. 16.30, ill.
Charles Darwent, "Double Vision," "The Independent," June 17, 2001, pp. 20-21, p. 20, ill.
Jay Fisher, "Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta Cone: A Collection of Modern Art for Baltimore," in Rosella Mamoli Zorzi, ed., "Before Peggy Guggenheim: American Woman Art Collectors," Venice: Marsilio, 2001, pp. 110-111, 121-122.
Jack Flam, "Matisse in the Cone Collection: The Poetics of Vision," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2001, pp. 5, 9, 21, 36-38, 40-42, 101, 103, pl. 10, ill.
Eric Gibson, "The Gallery: Seeing Matisse in a New Light," "Wall Street Journal," July 9, 2001, p. A.26, ill.
Anne Baldassari, Elizabeth Cowling, John Elderfield, John Golding, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine and Kirk Varnedoe, "Matisse Picasso," London: Tate Publishing, 2002, pp 14, 36, 41, 52-55, 58, 87, 233, 237, 333, 334, 363-365, 367, 373, 393, no. 14, ill.
Mary Gabriel, "The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone," Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 2002, pp. 75, 156-157, 251.
Bennard B. Perlman, "American Artists, Authors, and Collectors: The Walter Pach Letters 1906-1958," Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002, pp. 6-7, 53, p. 7, ill.
Eric M. Zafran, "Impressionism to Surrealism from the Baltimore Museum of Art: Selections from the Collections of Claribel and Etta Cone, Saidie Adler May, and Blanche Adler," Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 2002, p. 8.
John Dorsey, "Matisse Picasso," "Newsletter of the Print & Drawing Society of the Baltimore Museum of Art," Fall 2003, vol. XXI, no. 2, pp. 6, 9, p. 7, ill.
Flam, Jack D. Matisse and Picasso: The Story of their Rivalry and Friendshi Cambridge, MA: Icon Edition/Westview Press, 2003, p. 35, fig. 3.7.
Dennis J. Sporre, "The Creative Impulse: An Introduction to the Arts, Sixth Edition," Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall Inc., 2003, p. 516, no. 16.27, ill.
"A. L. Coburn's Men of Mark: Pioneers of Modernism," Hartford, CT: The Mark Twain House & Museum, 2004, p. 32, fig. 29, ill.
"BMA Today," January-February 2004, no. 105, n.p., ill.
"Henri Matisse Processus/Variation," Tokyo: Musée National d'Art occidental, Le Yomiuri Shimbun, NHK, NHK Promotions, 2004, p. 39, fig. 17, ill. (published as "Nu bleu").
Ann Dumas, Kathleen Brunner, Jack Flam, Rémi Labrusse, Hilary Spurling and Dominique Szymusiak, "Matisse, His Art and His Textiles: The Fabric of Dreams," London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2004, p. 201.
Wright, Alastair. Matisse and the Subject of Modernism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004, cover and pages 162, 165, and 222, ill.
Joséphine Matamoros and Dominique Szymusiak, "Matisse-Derain: Collioure 1905, un Été Fauve," Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 2005, pp. 42-43, 233, no. 181, ill. (published as "Nu Bleu, Souvenir de Biskra").
Pia Müller-Tamm, ed. Henri Matisse: Figure, Color, Space. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2005, p. 307, fig. 8 (published as “Blue Nude – Souvenir de Biskra”), ill.
Anna Gruetzner Robins and Richard Thomson, "Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec: London and Paris 1870-1910," London: Tate Publishing, 2005, pp. 180, 182, 230, fig. 51, ill.
James Campbell, "Young Girls and Old Boys: the Art of Prudence Heward and Edwin Holgate," "Border Crossings," June 2006, vol. 25, no. 2, n.p.
Michael Kammen, "Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture," New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006, pp. 63, 392, no. 32, fig. 27, ill.
Krisztina Passuth, "Hungarian Fauves from Paris to Nagybánya 1904-1914," Budapest: Hungarian National Gallery, 2006, p. 39, ill.
Adrienne L. Childs, "Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell," Petaluma, CA: Pomegranate, 2007, p. 39, fig. 41, ill.
Dorothy Kosinski, Jay McKean Fisher, Steven Nash, Ann Boulton, Oliver Shell, Heather Macdonald and Jed Morse, "Matisse: Painter as Sculptor," Baltimore, Dallas, New Haven: The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Dallas Museum of Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center, Yale University Press, 2007, pp. ii, 5, 28, 34, 41, 43, 45, 133, 152, 157, 291, 270, no. 46, ill.
Glenn McNatt, "Molding Matisse," "The Baltimore Sun," October 28, 2007, p. 5E, ill.
Alexander Nehamas, "Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art," Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007, p. 23, fig. 13, pl. 2, ill.
Brooke Kamin Rapaport, ed., "The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing A Legend," New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 41, fig. 4, ill.
"Matisse, Delacroix: Parfum d'Orient," "Télérama hors
séri" 2008, n.p., ill. (published as "Nu Bleu").
Ellen B. Hirschland and Nancy Hirschland Ramage, "The Cone Sisters of Baltimore: Collecting at Full Tilt," Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2008, pp. xv, 118-122, 142, 151, 203, 256, 277, 316, figs. 3, 5.16, ill.
Dianne Sachko Macleod, "Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects: American Women Collectors and the Making of Culture, 1800-1940," Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008, pp. 181, 200, 201, 202, 303, fig. 77, ill.
John Wilmerding, "Tom Wesselmann: His Voice and Vision," New York: Rizzoli, 2008, pp. 72-73, p. 73, ill.
Ortrud Westheider, Michael Philipp, Dorothee Böhm, Ina Conzen, Frank-Thomas Ziegler, "Matisse: People, Masks, Models," Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2008, p. 15, fig. 4, ill.
Marianne Amar, Marie Poinsot, Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, "A Chacun ses Étrangers? France-Allemagne de 1871 à aujourd'hui," Arles: Actes Sud, 2009, p. 130, ill. (published as "Nu bleu: Souvenir de Biskra").
Giovanni Careri, François Lissarrague, Jean-Claude Schmitt & Carlo Severi, "Traditions et Temporalités des Images," Paris: Éditions de l'École des hautes etudes en sciences socials, 2009, pp. 166, 255, fig. 82, ill. (published as "Nu bleu: Souvenir de Biskra").
Claudine Grammont, "Le Fauvisme Cent Ans Après," "Perspective: Actualités de la Recherche en Histoire de l'Art," December 2009, no. 4, p. 529, ill. (published as "Nu Bleu, Souvenir de Biskra").
Michèle Grandbois, Anna Hudson and Esther Trépanier, "The Nude in Modern Canadian Art, 1920-1950," Paris: Somogy Éditions d'Art, 2009, p. 25, fig. 3, ill.
Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale, Sotheby's, London, June 25, 2009, Lot # 105, p. 13, fig. 1, ill.
Tomàs Llorens, "Matisse 1917-1941," Madrid: Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2009, pp.110, 215-216, 218 fig. 29, ill. (published as "Desnudo azul, recuerdo de Biskra").
Spurling, Hilary. Matisse: The Life. London: Penguin Books, 2009, plate no. 7.
Stephanie d'Alessandro and John Elderfield, "Matisse: Radical Invention 1913-1917," Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2010, pp. table of contents, 51, 56-59, 93, 114, 316, 353, 362, cat. no. 1.3, ill.
H.H. Arnason and Elizabeth C. Mansfield, "History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography, Sixth Edition," Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2010, pp. 117-118, 128, 135, 166-168, 273, 816, fig. 6.9, ill.
Kenneth Clark and Charles Saumarez Smith, "The Nude: A Study in ideal Form," London: The Folio Society, 2010, p. 263, fig. 175, ill.
Peter Schjeldahl, "The Road to Nice: Matisse's Big Adventure," "The New Yorker," July 26, 2010, pp. 70-71, ill.
Urmila Seshagiri, "Race and the Modernist Imagination," Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010, pp. 99-100, 111, p. 100, ill.
Judith Zilczer, "The Dispersal of the John Quinn Collection," "Archives of American Art Journal," 2010, vol. 49, no. 1-2, pp. 60-61, p. 60, ill.
Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow, eds., "The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde," San Francisco: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2011, pp. 40, 56-57, 58, 64, 103, 164, 268, 317, 321, 366, 416, 462, 486, no. 139, pls. 27, 351, ill.
Karen Levitov, "Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore," New York: The Jewish Museum, 2011, pp. 19, 24, 73, 74, fig. 6, ill.
Harriet Lane Levy and Deborah Kirshman, "Paris Portraits: Stories of Picasso, Matisse, Gertrude Stein and Their Circle," Berkeley, CA: Heyday, 2011, back end, ill.
Karen Rosenberg, "What They Loved and What They Bought," "The New York Times," May 6, 2011, p. C30.
Impressionist and Modern Evening Sale, Christie's, New York, May 4, 2011, lot number 31, p. 122, fig. 2, ill. (published as "Nu bleu: Souvenir de Biskra").
Céline Chicha-Castex and Emilie Ovaere-Corthay, "Matisse Drawing Life," Queensland, Australia: Queensland Art Gallery, 2011, p. 46, fig. 13.
Cécile Debray, "Henri Matisse (1896-1954)," Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2011, color ill. p. 22.
Fillion, Susan. Miss Etta and Dr. Claribel: Bringing Matisse to America. Boston: David R. Godine, 2011, page 26.
Serge Guilbaut (ed), "Chatting with Henri Matisse, The Lost 1941 Interview", Los Angelas: The Getty Research Institute, 2013, pg 191.
Karen Jacobson (ed.), "The Steins Collect: Maitsse, Picasso and the Parisian Avante-Garde", San Francisco: San Fancisco Museum of Modern Art, 2011, p. 56
"Antiques", 2013, p. 158.
Tracy Fitzpatrick (Introduction), "When Modern Was Contemporary," New York: Neuberger Museum of Art Purchase College State University of New York, 2014, color illustration p. 214.
Timothy O. Benson, "Expressionism in Germany and France from van Gogh to Kandinsky," Munich-London-New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2014, color ill. p. 175.
Ellen McBreen, "Matisse's Sculpture, The Pinup and the Primitive", Conneticut: Yale University Press, pp. 52, ill. 45
Marilyn Satin Kushner and Kimberly Orcutt, Editors, "The Armory Show at 100: Modernism and Revolution," New York: New-York Historical Society, 2013, color ill. p. 220 and back cover.
"Im Farbenrausch: Munch, Matisse und die Expressionisten," Essen, Germany: Museum Folkwang, 2012, color ill. p. 40.
Debray, Cécile. Matisse: paires et séries: ouvrage réalisé à l'occasion de l'exposition Matisse, paires et séries présentée au Centre Pompidou, Paris, Galerie 2, du 7 mars au 18 juin 2012. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2012, page 123, fig. 3 (published as “Nu bleu: souvenir de Biskra”).
Dita Amory, "Madame Cézanne," New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014, p. 153, color ill.
Cécile Debray, "Le Fauvisme," Paris: Éditions Citadelles & Mazenod, 2014, color ill. pp. 238-39, no. 196 (published as "Nu bleu (Souvenir de Biskra)").
Gaude, Alexander, Ann-Katrin Hahn, Markus Müller, and Marie-Thérèse Pulvenis de Seligny. Henri Matisse: Nice, le rêve des odalisques: [exhibition, Nice, Musée Matisse, 21 juin - 29 septembre 2014]. Cologne: Wienand; [Antwerp]: Pandora Publishers, 2014, page 185 (published as “Nu bleu (Souvenir de Biskra)”).
Bois, Yve-Alain, ed. Matisse in the Barnes Foundation, vol. 1. Philadelphia: Barnes Foundation, 2015, p. 36, fig. 4.
Kaplan, Carol. "Bulletin Des Amis D'Andre Gide," 2015, p.41, color ill.
Catherine Ingram, "This is Matisse," London: Laurence Kling Publishing: 2015, ill.
"Southeby's Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale," New York, 2016, pp. 40, fig. 2, ill.
Essers, Volkmar. "Matisse." Germany: Taschen GmbH, 2016, pp. 22-23.
Ocaña, M. Teresa. Los Fauves: La Pasion por el color. Madrid: Fundacion Mapfre, 2016.
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The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, by bequest, 1929; Claribel Cone, Baltimore, by purchase, 1926; John Quinn collection sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris; John Quinn, New York, 1920; Marius de Zayas, Gallery, New York, c. 1920; Georges de Zayas, Paris; Alphonse Kann, Paris and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France; Leo and Gertrude Stein, Paris, 1907
Matisse: Painter as Sculptor
Matisse and the Methods of Modern Construction
Matisse-Rodin
The Stein Family Collection
The Ecstasy of Colour - Matisse, Derain, Munch and Early German Expressionism
The New Art Spirit: The Armory Show at 100
Max Weber: Bringing Paris to New York
Inspiration Matisse
Matisse and Picasso
To Become Matisse
Cone Wing Rotations 2020
Cone Wing Rotations 2021
Derain, Matisse and the Fauves
Derain, Matisse and the fauves. 1904-08
After Impressionism (working title)
Cone Wing Rotations 2022
Le Paris des Modernes: 1905-1925
Cone Wing Rotations 2023
Amities - Bonnard - Matisse pour les 60 ans de la Fondation Maeght
Cone Wing Rotations 2024
A Century of Baltimore Collecting 1840-1940
Cone Wing Rotations 2025
Matisse: Rhythms of Form
Christie's New York, "Impressionist and Modern Art" Evening Sale, November 1, 2011, p. 51, color ill.
Inscribed: Recto: Lower right, "Henri - Matisse"