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Young Girl with Plumed Hat in Profile

Henri Matisse

Young Girl with Plumed Hat in Profile

1918

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Henri Matisse

Young Girl with Plumed Hat in Profile

1918

Physical Qualities Graphite on paper, Sheet: 372 × 246 mm. (14 5/8 × 9 11/16 in.) Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm.)
Credit Line The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number 1950.12.41
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest 1949; from Etta Cone, Baltimore; from the artist, 1936
Museum of Modern Art, "Modern Drawings," 17 November - 22 December 1944, cat. p. 50.

Museum of Modern Art, "Henri Matisse," traveled to Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, San Francicsco Museum of Art, Municipal Art Galleries of Los Angeles, Portland Art Museum, 13 November 1951 - 10 October 1952.

Mr. Porter A. McCray, Committee for the Exhibition of French Drawings from American Collections, New York, NY, Boymans Museum, Rotterdam, Aug. 2 - Sept. 28, 1958; circulated to Orangerie, Paris, Oct. 2, 1958 - Jan. 2, 1959; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Feb. 2 - Mar. 15, 1959.

Victor Carlson, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Matisse as Draughtsman," 12 January - 21 February 1971, traveled to California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 20 March - 9 May 1971, The Art Institute of Chicago, 26 May - 10 July 1971, cat 35.

The Wildenstein Gallery, NY, "Cone Collection from The Baltimore Museum of Art: A Benefit Exhibition at Wildenstein, New York," 29 March - 11 May 1974.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, "Matisse in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," 24 August - 14 October 1979.

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, "Matisse Exhibition," 20 March - 17 May 1981; traveled to National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 26 May - 19 July 1981.

Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, "Matisse Drawings," 3 October 1984 - 6 January 1985, traveled to Museum of Modern Art, 27 February - 14 May 1985, cat. no. 48.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Spirited Line," 7 September - 2 November 1986.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Cone Wing rotation, 1 February - 1 July 1988.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Cone Wing rotation, 13 September 1994 - 24 January 1995.

Jay Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August, 1995.

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.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Denver Art Museum, "Matisse from The Baltimore Museum of Art," March 11, 2000 - June 25, 2000; circulated to the Birmingham Museum of Art, July 23, 2000 - September 17, 2000; The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, October 10, 2000 - January 28, 2001.

Kim Schenck, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Matisse: Drawing Defined," August 21 - November 10, 2002.

Katy Rothkopf, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "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, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 3 November 2012 - 10 February 2013.

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.
Wheeler, Monroe. Modern Drawings. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1944, page 50.
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, ed., Matisse: 20 March - 17 May, 1981, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo: 26 May - 19 July, 1981, the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. Tokyo: National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1981, pp. 231, no. 117 (published as "A Young Girl with Plumed Hat, in Profile").
Elderfield, John. The Drawings of Henri Matisse. New York: Thames and Hudson, published in association with the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985, ill, page 172, plate 48.
O’Brian, John. Ruthless Hedonism: The American Reception of Matisse. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999, p. 118, fig. 49.
Jack Flam, "Matisse in The Cone Collection The Poetics of Vision," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2001, pl. 16, p. 52, ill.
Karen Levitov, "Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore," New York: The Jewish Museum, 2011, pp. 42, 76, pl. 18, ill.
Cozzi, Leslie and Katherine Rothkopf (eds). "A Modern Influence: Henri Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2021. ill.

Inscribed: lower right in graphite: "Henri Matisse"

Markings: WM: B CRAYON ANCNE MANOIRE CANSON & MONTGOLFIER VIO (vertical through right side)

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Henri Matisse

1868–1953

French, 1869-1954
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