Henri Matisse
Dr. Claribel Cone (IV/IV)
1933-1934
Scroll
Henri Matisse
Dr. Claribel Cone (IV/IV)
1933-1934
Physical Qualities
Charcoal with stumping and erasing on paper, Sheet: 591 × 406 mm. (23 1/4 × 16 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.12.71
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore; gift of the artist, 1934
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Matisse's Marguerite: Model Daughter," 28 September 2013 - 19 January 2014.
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, "Matisse: People, Masks, Models," 27 September 2008 - 11 January 2009, traveled to Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, 31 January - 19 April 2009, cat. 76, p. 169, illus. p. 208.
Katy Rothkopf, BMA, "Grand Reopening of the Cone Collection," April 22 - July 22, 2001.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Denver Art Museum, "Matisse from The Baltimore Museum of Art," March 11, 2000 - June 25, 2000; circulated to the Birmingham Museum of Art, July 23, 2000 - September 17, 2000; The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, October 10, 2000 - January 28, 2001.
Jay Fisher, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November, 1996 - 19 January, 1997; Seattle Art Museum 20 February - 20 April, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 18 May - 13 July, 1997.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The
Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August, 1995.
BMA, "The Spirited Line," 7 September - 2 November 1986.
Hayward Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, "Matisse Drawings," 3 October 1984 - 6 January 1985, traveled to Museum of Modern Art, New York, 27 February - 14 May 1985, cat. 75.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, "Matisse in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," 24 August - 14 October 1979.
Wildenstein, NY, "Cone Collection from The Baltimore Museum of Art: A Benefit Exhibition at Wildenstein, New York," 29 March - 11 May 1974.
BMA, "Matisse as a Draughtsman, " 12 January - 21 February, 1971; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 20 March - 9 May 1971; Art Institute of Chicago, 26 May - 10 July 1971, cat. 54.
UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles, "Henri Matisse Retrospective," traveled to Art Institute of Chicago and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1966, cat. 176, illus. p. 153.
1959 New York, cat. 206, illus. pl. 186.
Mr. Porter A. McCray, Committee for the Exhibition of French Drawings from American Collections, New York, NY, Boymans Museum, Rotterdam, Aug. 2 - Sept. 28, 1958; circulated to Orangerie, Paris, Oct. 2, 1958 - Jan. 2, 1959; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Feb. 2 - Mar. 15, 1959.
Knoedler Galleries, NY, "The Cone Collection," 1955.
Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, "The Cone Collection," 1953.
Museum of Modern Art, NY, "20th Century Portraits," 1942, p. 140, illus. p. 85.
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, "Matisse: People, Masks, Models," 27 September 2008 - 11 January 2009, traveled to Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, 31 January - 19 April 2009, cat. 76, p. 169, illus. p. 208.
Katy Rothkopf, BMA, "Grand Reopening of the Cone Collection," April 22 - July 22, 2001.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Denver Art Museum, "Matisse from The Baltimore Museum of Art," March 11, 2000 - June 25, 2000; circulated to the Birmingham Museum of Art, July 23, 2000 - September 17, 2000; The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, October 10, 2000 - January 28, 2001.
Jay Fisher, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November, 1996 - 19 January, 1997; Seattle Art Museum 20 February - 20 April, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 18 May - 13 July, 1997.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The
Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August, 1995.
BMA, "The Spirited Line," 7 September - 2 November 1986.
Hayward Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, "Matisse Drawings," 3 October 1984 - 6 January 1985, traveled to Museum of Modern Art, New York, 27 February - 14 May 1985, cat. 75.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, "Matisse in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," 24 August - 14 October 1979.
Wildenstein, NY, "Cone Collection from The Baltimore Museum of Art: A Benefit Exhibition at Wildenstein, New York," 29 March - 11 May 1974.
BMA, "Matisse as a Draughtsman, " 12 January - 21 February, 1971; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 20 March - 9 May 1971; Art Institute of Chicago, 26 May - 10 July 1971, cat. 54.
UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles, "Henri Matisse Retrospective," traveled to Art Institute of Chicago and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1966, cat. 176, illus. p. 153.
1959 New York, cat. 206, illus. pl. 186.
Mr. Porter A. McCray, Committee for the Exhibition of French Drawings from American Collections, New York, NY, Boymans Museum, Rotterdam, Aug. 2 - Sept. 28, 1958; circulated to Orangerie, Paris, Oct. 2, 1958 - Jan. 2, 1959; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Feb. 2 - Mar. 15, 1959.
Knoedler Galleries, NY, "The Cone Collection," 1955.
Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, "The Cone Collection," 1953.
Museum of Modern Art, NY, "20th Century Portraits," 1942, p. 140, illus. p. 85.
Bois, Yve-Alain, ed. Matisse in the Barnes Foundation, vol. 1. Philadelphia: Barnes Foundation, 2015, p. 150, fig. 63.
Fillion, Susan. Miss Etta and Dr. Claribel: Bringing Matisse to America. Boston: David R. Godine, 2011, page 8.
Gabriel, Mary. The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone. [Baltimore, MD]: Bancroft Press, 2002, unpaged plate section.
Jack Flam, "Matisse in The Cone Collection The Poetics of Vision," (Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2001), pl. 41, p. 91, ill.
John Klein, "Matisse Portraits," (London: Yale University Press, 2001), pl. 140, ill.
Valakos, Dorothy. Matisse for Kids. Brochure. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 2001, unpaged.
O’Brian, John. Ruthless Hedonism: The American Reception of Matisse. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999, p. 83.
The International Review published by The Drawing Society, Vol. XVII, No.1, May - June 1995, p.1, ill.
Guillaud, Maurice, and Jacqueline Guillaud. Matisse: le rythme et la ligne. Paris: Guillaud Editions, 1987, plate no. 315 (published as “Dr. Claribel Cone”).
Cowart, Jack, and Dominique Fourcade. Henri Matisse: The Early Years in Nice, 1916-1930. Washington: National Gallery of Art; New York: H. N. Abrams, 1986, page 250, fig. 25.
Brenda Richardson, "Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta: The Cone Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore, 1985, p. 122.
Elderfield, John. The Drawings of Henri Matisse. New York: Thames and Hudson, published in association with the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985, page 191, plate 75, ill.
Russell, John. The World of Matisse, 1869-1954. New York: Time-Life Books, [1969], ill. p. 84.
Baltimore Museum of Art. Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings in the Cone Collection. Revised edition. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1967, page 12, no. 269.
Jean Guichard-Meili, "Matisse," NY: Praeger, 1967, pl. 193.
Leymarie, Jean, Herbert Read and William S. Lieberman. Henri Matisse. Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1966, no. 176, ill. (published as "Dr. Claribel Cone").
Jean Selz, "Henri Matisse," NY, 1964, p. 47.
Committee for the Exhibition of French Drawings from American Collections. De Clouet a Matisse: Dessins Français des Collections Americaines [exposition] 1958-1959. Paris, [1958], plate 201, cat. 206, unpaged.
"Handbook of the Cone Collection," BMA, 1955, illus. p. 6.
"Portraits by Henri Matisse," Monte Carlo, 1954, pl. 35.
Alfred Barr, "Matisse--His Art and His Public," New York, 1951, p. 220, illus. p. 470.
Philadelphia Museum Bulletin, XLIII, no. 217 (March 1948), illus. p. 40.
Art News, XLVII, no. 2 (April 1948), p. 30.
George Boas, "The Cone Collection," Baltimore, 1935, frontispiece and pl. 95d.
Cone, Etta. The Cone Collection of Baltimore, Maryland: Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. [Baltimore, MD]: [Etta Cone], 1934, opposite title page and plate 95d.
Inscribed: lower right in graphite: "Henri Matisse"
