Pablo Picasso
Two Roosters
1906
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Pablo Picasso
Two Roosters
1906
Physical Qualities
Pen and black ink, brush and black ink, and opaque watercolor, Sheet: 241 × 311 mm. (9 1/2 × 12 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.274
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, by 1925
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.
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.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, "Masterpieces from the Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum," October 1991 - January 1992.
BMA, "Picasso: The Museum Collection," 11 July - 27 August 1989.
The Wildenstein Gallery, NY, "Cone Collection from The Baltimore Museum of Art: A Benefit Exhibition at Wildenstein, New York," 29 March - 11 May 1974.
Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C., "Birds in Contemporary Art," 12 February - 31 March 1966, cat. no. 25.
Greensboro Public Library, "Cone Collection," 31 March - 14 April 1965.
Smith College Museum of Art, "Beauty in the Beast," 1 May - 7 June 1964, p. 23.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, "The Cone Collection," October - November 1953.
BMA, "An Exhibition of Modern French Art," 9 January - 1 February 1925, p. 11, cat. no. 89(?).
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.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, "Masterpieces from the Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum," October 1991 - January 1992.
BMA, "Picasso: The Museum Collection," 11 July - 27 August 1989.
The Wildenstein Gallery, NY, "Cone Collection from The Baltimore Museum of Art: A Benefit Exhibition at Wildenstein, New York," 29 March - 11 May 1974.
Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C., "Birds in Contemporary Art," 12 February - 31 March 1966, cat. no. 25.
Greensboro Public Library, "Cone Collection," 31 March - 14 April 1965.
Smith College Museum of Art, "Beauty in the Beast," 1 May - 7 June 1964, p. 23.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, "The Cone Collection," October - November 1953.
BMA, "An Exhibition of Modern French Art," 9 January - 1 February 1925, p. 11, cat. no. 89(?).
"Cone Collection of Baltimore, Maryland," Baltimore: Etta Cone, 1934, pl. 108.
Christian Zervos, "Pablo Picasso," Vol. XXII, Paris: Editions Cahiers d'Art, 1954, no. 195.
Agnes Mongan, "French Drawings, Thirteenth Century to 1919, vol. III, Great Drawings of All Time," NY: Shorewood Publishers, Inc., 1962, no. 857, ill.
"The Cone Collection," (rev. ed.), Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1967, no. 89.
Pierre Daix and George Boudaille, "Picasso, the Blue and Rose Periods: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1900-1906," trans. by Phoebe Pool, London: Evelyn, Adams and Mackay, 1967, no. XV.51.
Denys Sutton and Paolo Lecaldano, "The Complete Paintings of Picasso: Blue and Rose Periods," London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Ltd., 1971, no. 282.
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. 40.
Karen Levitov, "Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore," New York: The Jewish Museum, 2011, pp. 29, 77, pl. 4, ill.
Inscribed: lower left in black ink: "Picasso"
