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
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"
