Henri Matisse and Valsuani
Figure with Cushion
1917
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Bronze, 5 1/4 x 10 1/2 x 4 1/8 in. (13.3 x 26.7 x 10.5 cm.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.433
Small bronze sculpture depicting a nude reclining female with her proper right arm leaning on a cushion.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, by purchase from the artist 1925.
Matisse: Painter as Sculptor
Cone Refresh
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A Century of Baltimore Collecting 1840-1940
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Etta Cone, "The Cone Collection of Baltimore, Maryland" (Baltimore: 1934) plate. # 121b.
'Cone Bequest,' "BMA News," Oct. 1949, no. 120.
Barr, Alfred Hamilton. Matisse, His Art and His Public. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1951, page 424.
"Handbook of the Cone Collection," (Baltimore: BMA, 1955) 45, no. 153.
"Handbook of the Cone Collection," revised edition (Baltimore: BMA, 1967) no. 142.
Albert Elsen, 'The Sculpture of Matisse,' "Art Forum, vol. VII, #2, Oct. 1968.
Albert Elsen, "The Sculpture of Matisse," (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1971?) 143.
Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, "The Sculpture of Henri Matisse," (London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1984) cat. # 54.
Kosinski, Dorothy, Jay McKean Fisher, and Steven Nash. Matisse: Painter as Sculptor. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art; Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art: Nasher Sculpture Center; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, pages 230, 275, cat. no. 111
Claude Duthuit and Wanda de Guébriant, "Henri Matisse: Catalgoue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté," Paris, Claude Duthuit (publisher), 1997, p. 174, cat. #62 (edition 2).
Inscribed: "Henri Matisse" signed on cushion
Markings: Foundry mark: "Cire C. Valsuani Perdue" and edition number "2/10" both inscribed on cushion.
