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Nude with Blue Cushion

Henri Matisse

Nude with Blue Cushion

1923

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Henri Matisse

Nude with Blue Cushion

1923

Physical Qualities Crayon transfer lithograph, Sheet: 757 × 561 mm. (29 13/16 × 22 1/16 in.) Image: 615 × 480 mm. (24 3/16 × 18 7/8 in.) Mat: 39 15/16 × 29 15/16 in. (101.5 × 76 cm.)
Credit Line The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number 1950.12.322
BMA, "Master Prints II: Daumier to Picasso," 25 October, 1983 - 15 January, 1984.

BMA, Cone Rotation, March 2002.

Katy Rothkopf, "Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris," circulated to North Carolina Museum of Art, October 10, 2004 - January 16, 2005, and the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, March 2 - June 3, 2007.

Dorothy Kosinski, Jay McKean Fisher, Steven Nash; BMA, Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, "Matisse: Painter as Sculptor," Dallas, January 21 - April 29, 2007; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 9 - September 16, 2007; The Baltimore Museum of Art, October 28, 2007- February 3, 2008, cat. no. 107, p. 275, ill. p. 219.

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.

Katy Rothkopf and Leslie Cozzi, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "A Modern Influence: Henry Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore," October 3, 2021 - January 2, 2022.
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 219, 275, cat. no. 107.
'Henri Matisse and the BMA,' "BMA Today," Fall-Winter 2009, pp. 6-7, ill. p. 7.
Brown, Kathryn. Henri Matisse. London: Reaktion Books, 2021, page 123.
Cozzi, Leslie and Katherine Rothkopf (eds). "A Modern Influence: Henri Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2021. ill.

Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "12/50"; lower right in graphite: "Henri Matisse"

Markings: Watermark: "J PERRIGOT ARCHES (France)" and "MBM"

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Henri Matisse

French, 1869-1954
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