Henri Matisse
Reclining Model with a Flowered Robe
1917-1928
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Henri Matisse
Reclining Model with a Flowered Robe
1917-1928
Physical Qualities
Compressed charcoal with stumping and erasing on paper, Sheet: 480 × 628 mm. (18 7/8 × 24 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.12.52
This magnificent chalk drawing, animated by an astonishing variety of decorative patterns, embodies all the brilliance of new ideas that emerged for the artist during the 1920s. In a manner similar to polishing the surface of a sculpture, Matisse manipulated the chalk with an estompe, a tool made of rolled paper. This tool erased or thinned the chalk on the surface of the paper and allowed the brilliant quality of the white paper to become an active part of the image. He achieved a broad range of tones within the limited palette of a chalk drawing.
Publication References
Philippe Marcel, "Henri Matisse", L'Art d'Aujourd'hui." Summer 1924, illus. pl. XXVIII.
BMA, Cone Collection , 1955, illus. p. 54.
Dee, Elaine Evans. 19th & 20th Century European Drawings: [Exhibition] Organized and Circulated by the American Federation of Arts, July 1965 - July 1966. [New York]: [1965], no. 33 (published as “Woman Resting”).
"Painting, Scuplture and Drawings in The Cone Collection," rev ed., 1967, cat. no. 195.
John Elderfield, "Matisse Drawings and Sculpture." Art Forum (Sept. 1972), p. 80, illus. p. 83.
Musée National d'Art Moderne. Henri Matisse: Dessins et Sculpture: Musée National d'Art Moderne, 29 Mai - 7 Septembre 1975. [Paris]: Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, 1975, ill. page 113, plate 69.
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, pp. 97, ill
Brenda Richardson, "Dr Claribel & Miss Etta: The Cone Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art, BMA, 1985, p. 190
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 180, plate 62, ill.
Guillaud, Maurice, and Jacqueline Guillaud. Matisse: le rythme et la ligne. Paris: Guillaud Editions, 1987, page 264, plate no. 264 (published as “Figure allongée à la robe fleurie”).
Jeans Selz, "Matisse," New York: Crown Publishers, 1990, illus. p. 78.
BMA, "Newsletter of the Print, Drawing & Photograph Society," vol XX, no. 1, Fall 2002, p. 8.
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. 105.
Jay McKean Fisher, "Matisse as Printmaker: Works from the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation," American Federation of Arts, 2009, p. 53, fig. 6, ill.
Bishop, Janet and Katy Rothkopf eds. Matisse/Diebenkorn. New York: Prestel, 2016.
Fisher, Jay McKean. Matisse grabador/printmaker. Madrid: La Fábrica, 2019.
Cozzi, Leslie and Katherine Rothkopf (eds). "A Modern Influence: Henri Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2021. ill.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, 1937; Siegfried Rosengart Gallery, Lucerne, 1937; Justin K. Thannhauser, Lucerne; the artist
Henri Matisse et Pierre Bonnard "Viva la peinture!"
Matisse: Painter as Sculptor
Matisse: Drawings and Graphics
A Modern Influence: Henri Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore
Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "Henri Matisse"
Markings: WM: MBM (FRANCE)