Henri Matisse
Seated Nude Clasping Her Right Leg
1917
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Henri Matisse
Seated Nude Clasping Her Right Leg
1917
Physical Qualities
Bronze, 9 x 8 5/8 x 6 in. (22.9 x 21.9 x 15.2 cm.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.434
“I took up sculpture because what interested me in painting was a clarification of my ideas. I changed my method, and worked in clay in order to have a rest from painting, in which I had done absolutely all that I could for the time being. That is to say that it was done for the purpose of organization, to put order into my feelings and to find a style to suit me. When I found it in sculpture, it helped me in my painting. It was always in view of a complete possession of mind, a sort of hierarchy of all my sensations that I kept working in the hope of finding an ultimate conclusion.” –Matisse, 1941
Installed with 1950.435 and 1950.431
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, by purchase from the artist, Sep. 1930.
Probably included in the 1930 exhibition "Henri Matisse", at Galerien Thannhauser, Berlin-Luzern; see notes.
Brenda Richardson, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, "Matisse in The Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art", August 24-October 14, 1979.
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.
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. 68, p. 271, ill. pp. 186, 187.
Katy Rothkopf, BMA, "Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore", circulated to The Jewish Museum, New York, 6 May-25 September 2011, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2 June-23 September 2012, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 3 November 2012-10 February 2013.
National Gallery of Australia, "Matisse and Picasso", December 15, 2019-April 13, 2020.
Brenda Richardson, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, "Matisse in The Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art", August 24-October 14, 1979.
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.
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. 68, p. 271, ill. pp. 186, 187.
Katy Rothkopf, BMA, "Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore", circulated to The Jewish Museum, New York, 6 May-25 September 2011, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2 June-23 September 2012, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 3 November 2012-10 February 2013.
National Gallery of Australia, "Matisse and Picasso", December 15, 2019-April 13, 2020.
G. Poulain, 'Sculptures de Henri Matisse,' "Formes," No. IX, Nov. 1930, p. 10.
Etta Cone, "The Cone Collection of Baltimore, Maryland" (Baltimore: 1934) plate. # 121c.
"Handbook of the Cone Collection," (Baltimore: BMA, 1955) 45, no. 154.
Escholier, Raymond. Matisse: A Portrait of the Artist and the Man. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, [1960], no. 45.
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., "Matisse: His Art and His Public," (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1951) 557.
"Handbook of the Cone Collection, Revised Edition," (Baltimore: BMA, 1967) no. 143.
Albert Elsen, "The Sculpture of Matisse," (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1972) 138-41[Elsen refers to this piece as "Seated Venus"].
Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, "The Sculpture of Henri Matisse," (London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1984) cat. # 52.
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, page 186-187, 271, cat. no. 68.
Karen Levitov, "Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore," New York: The Jewish Museum, 2011, pp. 52, 76, pl. 28, ill.
Cozzi, Leslie and Katherine Rothkopf (eds). "A Modern Influence: Henri Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2021. ill.
Inscribed: "HM 6/10"on lower back
Markings: "Cire - C. Valsuani - perdue" on back side lower right. Paper label on bottom: "Gallery Thannhauser/ Berlin/ Luzerne, Bellvue Str. 13/Halden Str.11/C8 20450"
