Pablo Picasso
Study for “Nude with Drapery”
1906
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Pablo Picasso
Study for “Nude with Drapery”
1906
Physical Qualities
Watercolor and black conté crayon, Sheet: 309 × 243 mm. (12 3/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.278
Preparatory drawing for the painting, 'Nude with Drapery,' Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, by purchase 1936; from Paul Rosenberg, Paris; Gertrude and Leo Stein until 1914
Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow, eds., "The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde." San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 21-Sept. 6, 2011, the Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais, Paris, Oct. 3, 2011-Jan. 20, 2012, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Feb. 21-June 3, 2012
Tate Modern and Museum of Modern Art, "Matisse-Picasso," Tate Modern, London, May 9, 2002 - August 18, 2002; Grand Palais, Paris, September 24, 2002 - January 6, 2003; Museum of Modern Art, Queens, February 12, 2003 - May 19, 2003 (exhibited at MOMAQNS venue only).
Jay Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Picasso: Portrait and Figure,' August 8, 2001-October 28, 2001.
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.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The
Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August, 1995.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
Tate Modern and Museum of Modern Art, "Matisse-Picasso," Tate Modern, London, May 9, 2002 - August 18, 2002; Grand Palais, Paris, September 24, 2002 - January 6, 2003; Museum of Modern Art, Queens, February 12, 2003 - May 19, 2003 (exhibited at MOMAQNS venue only).
Jay Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Picasso: Portrait and Figure,' August 8, 2001-October 28, 2001.
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.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The
Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August, 1995.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
"Cone Collection of Baltimore, Maryland," Baltimore: Etta Cone, 1934, pl. 64.
Christian Zervos, "Pablo Picasso, Vol. II," Paris: Editions Cahiers d'Art, 1942, no. 45.
Adelyn Breeskin, "Early Picasso Drawings in the Cone Collection,
Yale University Art Gallery. Pictures for a picture of Gertrude Stein as a collector and writer on art and artists : ǂb an exhibition: Yale University Art Gallery, February 11-March 11, 1951; the Baltimore Museum of Art, March 21 - Aril 21, 1951. [New Haven], [1951], cat. no. 30, (published as ‘Nu au bras leve’).
Pierre Daix and Georges Boudaille, "Picasso, the Blue and Rose Periods: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1900-1906," London: Evelyn, Adams and Mackay, 1967, XVI.12.
"The Cone Collection. " rev. ed., Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1967 no. 91, ill. p. 38.
Edward Burns, ed. "Gertrude Stein on Picasso," NY: Liveright/The Museum of Modern Art, 1970, ill. p. 133.
Victor I. Carlson, "Picasso: Drawings and Watercolors, 1899-1907 in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1976, cat. 45.
Rubin, William, ed. Pablo Picasso, A Retrospective. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1980, p. 103 ill.
Brenda Richardson, "Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1985, ill. p. 88.
National Gallery of Art, "Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and his New York Galleries," Boston, New York, and London: Bullfinch Press, 2000, p. 120, fig. 44.
Cowling, Elizabeth, Anne Baldassari, John Elderfield, et al. Matisse Picasso. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2002, figure 25, page 344.
Baltimore Museum of Art, "Newsletter of the Print and Drawing Society of the Baltimore Museum of Art," Volume XXI, No. 2, Fall 2003, p. 7, ill.
Helene Seckel, "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon," Paris: Musée Picasso, p.265, fig III.3.
Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow, eds., "The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde," San Francisco: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2011.
Levitov, Karen. Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore. New York: The Jewish Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2011, page 24, fig. 11.
Fillion, Susan. Miss Etta and Dr. Claribel: Bringing Matisse to America. Boston: David R. Godine, 2011, page 41.
"The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum," The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014, p. 194-95.
