Henri Matisse
Irene, Lowered Head
1914
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Henri Matisse
Irene, Lowered Head
1914
Physical Qualities
Etching on chine collé, Sheet: 280 x 188 mm. (11 x 7 3/8 in.)
Plate: 90 x 66 mm. (3 9/16 x 2 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.12.117
Matisse’s early sculptures of heads, often modeled after his children or family friends, reveal the same free experimentation that we discover in his rapidly drawn etchings of 1914. Just as the sculptor explores the structure of the head or the face with keen attention to volume andmass, so the printmaker uses those same heightened powers of observation to perceive the model’s unique personal traits and transmit them in quickly realized etchings.
Purchased by Etta Cone from the artist, August 1925
Jay Fisher, American Federation of the Arts, "Matisse as Printmaker," The Baltimore Museum of Art, October 25, 2009 - January 3,2010; circulating to The Tampa Museum of Art, January 29, 2010 - April 10, 2010, and Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, October 29, 2010 - February 13, 2011.
Inscribed: lower right in black ink: "Henri Matisse / 6/15"
