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The Embroidered Dark Blouse (Woman in Red Chair)

Henri Matisse

The Embroidered Dark Blouse (Woman in Red Chair)

1935

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Henri Matisse

The Embroidered Dark Blouse (Woman in Red Chair)

1935

Physical Qualities Oil on canvas, 13 7/8 x 9 1/2 in. (35.2 x 24.1 cm.)
Credit Line The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number 1950.260
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, by purchase, December 15, 1938; Paul Rosenberg, Paris
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George Besson, "Matisse," Paris: Les Éditions Braun & Cie, 1945, no. 26, ill. (Published as "Corsage Noir Brodé Blanc")
George Boas, Adelyn D. Breeskin and J.G. D'Arcy Paul, "Selections from the Cone Collection," "News of the Baltimore Museum of Art," October 1949, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 18. (Published as "Portrait of a Girl Seated in Red Armchair")
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., "Matisse: His Art and His Public," New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1951, pp. 223, 251, 476, 557, 575, 579, p. 476, ill. (Published as "Girl in Red Chair/Femme à la Chaise Rouge")
Gaston Diehl, "Henri Matisse," Paris: Éditions Pierre Tisné, 1954, pp. 145, 159, pl. 114, ill. (Published as "Femme à la Chaise Rouge")
André Sauret, "Portraits par Henri Matisse," Monte Carlo: Éditions du Livre, 1954, pl. 137, ill. (Published as "Femme à la Chaise Rouge")
"Matisse: A Rare Collection Record," "Vogue" March 1, 1955, vol. 125, pp. 133, 134, ill. p. 134. (Published as "Girl in Red Chair")
George Boas, Adelyn Breeskin, and Gertrude Rosenthal, "Cone Collection: A Handbook with a Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1955, p. 37, no. 75. (Published as "Girl in Red Armchair")
Raymond Escholier, "Matisse: A Portrait of the Artist and the Man," New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1960, pp. 153, 222. (Published as "Femme à la chaise rouge")
George Boas, Adelyn Breeskin, and Gertrude Rosenthal, "Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings in the Cone Collection," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1967, p. 67, no. 72. (Published as "Girl in Red Armchair")
Giuseppe Marchiori, "Matisse," Milan: Amilcare Pizzi, 1967, pp. 91, 134, no. 87, ill. (Published as "Donna con la sedia rossa"
Kenjiro Okamoto, "L'Art du Monde, Bonnard/Matisse, vol. 16," Paris: Kawade Shobo, 1968, p. 114, no. 63, ill. (Published as "Femme à la chaise rouge")
San Lazzaro, "L'idéal feminin d'un grand seigneur," "XXe siècle: Hommage à Henri Matisse," 1970, p. 117, ill. (Published as "Femme à la chaise rouge")
Massimo Carrà and Mario Luzi, "L'opera di Matisse dalla rivolta 'fauve' all'intimismo 1904-1928," Milan: Rizzoli 1971, pp. 105, 106, 113, 114, no. 473, ill. (Published as "Donna su una Sedia Rossa")
Mannering, Douglas. The Art of Matisse. London: Optimum Books, 1982, page 69 (published as “Woman in a Red Chair”).
Pierre Schneider, Massimo Carrà and Xavier Deryng, "Tout l'Oeuvre Peint de Matisse 1904-1928," Paris: Flammarion, 1982, pp. 105-106, 114, no. 473, ill. (Published as "Femme à la Chaise Rouge")
Brenda Richardson, "Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta: The Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1985, p. 193.
Lydia Delectorskaya, "…l'apparente facilité…Henri Matisse, Peintures de 1935-1939,” Paris: Adrien Maeght, 1986, pp. 31, 194, p. 194, ill. (Published as "Blouse Noire Brodee")
Delectorskaya, Lydia. Henri Matisse, contre vents et marées: peinture et livres illustrés de 1939 à 1943. Paris: Éditions Irus et Vincent Hansma, 1996, p. 228, ill. (published as “Blouse noire brodée”).
Nobuyuki Senzoku and Akira Tomita, "Matisse and Modern Masters from the Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art," Tokyo: Brain Trust Inc., 1996, pp. 92, 159, no. 37, ill.
John Klein, "Matisse Portraits," New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001, pp. 232-233, no. 189, ill.
Dominique Szymusiak, Marie-Thérèse Pulvenis de Séligny, Wanda de Guébriant, Irina Antonova, "Lydia D: Lydia Delectorskaya, Muse et Modèle de Matisse," Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2010, pp. 122-123, 214, p. 123, ill. (Published as "Blouse noire brodée")
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: Lower right, incised, "Henri Matisse/36" Verso: The painting has been wax lined and there are no visible inscriptions on the verso.

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