Pablo Picasso
Woman Plaiting Her Hair (Fernande)
1905
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Pablo Picasso
Woman Plaiting Her Hair (Fernande)
1905
Physical Qualities
Bronze, 16 3/8 x 10 1/4 x 12 5/16 in. (41.6 x 26 x 31.3 cm.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.452
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, by purchase; Buchholz Gallery, New York, 1940; possibly Ambroise Vollard
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "A Century of Baltimore Collecting 1840-1940", June 6- September 1, 1941.
Fine Arts Associates, New York, "Picasso Sculpture", January 15-February 9, 1957.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Picasso, 75th Anniversary Exhibition", May 22-September 8, 1957; circulated to The Art Institute of Chicago, October 29-December 8, 1957.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Picasso, A Loan Exhibition of His Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Ceramics, Prints and illustrated Books", January 8-February 23, 1958.
Otto Gerson Gallery, New York, "Picasso: An American Tribute", April 24-May 12, 1962.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, "The Sculpture of Picasso", October 9, 1967-January 7, 1968.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective", May 14-September 30, 1980.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, "Cone Collection from The Baltimore Museum of Art", March 29-May 11, 1974.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, "Gauguin to Moore: Primitivism in Modern Sculpture", October 6, 1981-January 3, 1982.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Spirit of Appreciation: Masterpieces from the Cone Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 6-November 24,1985; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, December 14, 1985-February 9, 1986.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Matisse, Picasso and Impressionist Masters from the Cone Collection", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, October 2, 1991-January 19,1992.
Tate Gallery, London, "Picasso: Sculptor / Painter", February 16-May 8, 1994.
Jay Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Picasso: Portrait and Figure", August 8, 2001-October 28, 2001.
Katy Rothkopf, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris", North Carolina Museum of Art, October 10, 2004-January 16, 2005; Naples Museum of Art, February 5, 2005-May 1, 2005.
Oliver Shell, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Rodin: Expression and Influence", August 1, 2007-April 6, 2008.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, "Picasso Looking at Degas", June 6-September 12, 2010; Museum Picasso, October 14, 2010-Jaunary 16, 2011.
Katy Rothkopf, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore", circulated to The Jewish Museum, New York, May 6-September 25, 2011; Vancouver Art Gallery, June 2-September 23, 2012; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, November 3, 2012-February 10, 2013.
Fine Arts Associates, New York, "Picasso Sculpture", January 15-February 9, 1957.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Picasso, 75th Anniversary Exhibition", May 22-September 8, 1957; circulated to The Art Institute of Chicago, October 29-December 8, 1957.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Picasso, A Loan Exhibition of His Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Ceramics, Prints and illustrated Books", January 8-February 23, 1958.
Otto Gerson Gallery, New York, "Picasso: An American Tribute", April 24-May 12, 1962.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, "The Sculpture of Picasso", October 9, 1967-January 7, 1968.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective", May 14-September 30, 1980.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, "Cone Collection from The Baltimore Museum of Art", March 29-May 11, 1974.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, "Gauguin to Moore: Primitivism in Modern Sculpture", October 6, 1981-January 3, 1982.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Spirit of Appreciation: Masterpieces from the Cone Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 6-November 24,1985; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, December 14, 1985-February 9, 1986.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Matisse, Picasso and Impressionist Masters from the Cone Collection", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, October 2, 1991-January 19,1992.
Tate Gallery, London, "Picasso: Sculptor / Painter", February 16-May 8, 1994.
Jay Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Picasso: Portrait and Figure", August 8, 2001-October 28, 2001.
Katy Rothkopf, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris", North Carolina Museum of Art, October 10, 2004-January 16, 2005; Naples Museum of Art, February 5, 2005-May 1, 2005.
Oliver Shell, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Rodin: Expression and Influence", August 1, 2007-April 6, 2008.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, "Picasso Looking at Degas", June 6-September 12, 2010; Museum Picasso, October 14, 2010-Jaunary 16, 2011.
Katy Rothkopf, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore", circulated to The Jewish Museum, New York, May 6-September 25, 2011; Vancouver Art Gallery, June 2-September 23, 2012; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, November 3, 2012-February 10, 2013.
Cahiers d'Art, No. 7-8, 1927, ill. p. 285.
Christian Zervos, I:329, 1932, ill. p. 153.
Handbook of the Cone Collection (Baltimore: BMA, 1955) 47, # 166.
Handbook of the Cone Collection (revised edition) (Baltimore: BMA, 1967) 53, # 155.
Roland Penrose, "The Sculpture of Picasso" (New York, NY: MOMA, 1967), 221, ill. p. 49.
Rubin, William, ed. Pablo Picasso, A Retrospective. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1980, p. 74 ill.
Werner Spies and Christine Piot, "Picasso Das Plastische Werk," exh. cat. to Picasso Plastiken (Berlin: Nationalgalerie, 1983), 372.
Elizabeth Cowling and John Golding, "Picasso:Sculptor/Painter," (London: Tate Gallery Publications, 1994) 42, 255, #2.
Elizabeth Cowling and Richard Kendall, "Picasso Looks at Degas," (Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; Barcelona, Spain: Museu Picasso, 2010), pp. 180-181, plate #201, ill.
Karen Levitov, "Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore," New York: The Jewish Museum, 2011, pp. 65, 77, pl. 43, ill.
Inscribed: Signed "PICASSO" on the proper right near the bottom of the sculpture. An attached bracket on the back is inscribed with the words "Made In France."
On View: Cone Wing, Gallery 6
