Henri Matisse
Small Light Woodcut
1906
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Henri Matisse
Small Light Woodcut
1906
Physical Qualities
Woodcut, Sheet: 458 × 290 mm. (18 1/16 × 11 7/16 in.)
Image: 353 × 266 mm. (13 7/8 × 10 1/2 in.)
Mat: 22 × 16 in. (55.9 × 40.6 cm.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.12.237
The woodcuts the artist created between 1906 and 1907 were in fact cut by his wife Amélie, according to her husband’s brush-and-ink drawings. Matisse’s family was often involved in his artistic production in sometimes more or less obvious ways.
Jay Fisher, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November, 1996 - 19 January, 1997; Seattle Art Museum 20 February - 20 April, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 18 May - 13 July, 1997.
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, shown BMA only.
Timothy O. Benson, "Expressionism in Germany and France: From Van Gogh to Kandinsky," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 8 - September 14, 2014, and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, October 6-January 15, 2015, exh cat. no. 157.
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.
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, shown BMA only.
Timothy O. Benson, "Expressionism in Germany and France: From Van Gogh to Kandinsky," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 8 - September 14, 2014, and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, October 6-January 15, 2015, exh cat. no. 157.
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.
Cozzi, Leslie and Katherine Rothkopf (eds). "A Modern Influence: Henri Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2021. ill.
Inscribed: Recto: at lower left, in graphite: "26/50"; at lower right, in graphite: "Henri Matisse"; Verso: at lower right, in graphite: "26/50"
Markings: WM: Van Gelder Zonen (large, through center of sheet)
