A modern influence : Henri Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore / edited by Katherine Rothkopf and Leslie Cozzi ; featuring artwork and commentary by Theresa Chromati.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baltimore Museum of Art, author, host institution.

Contributor:

Rothkopf, Katherine, editor.

Cozzi, Leslie, editor.

Shell, Oliver, writer of supplementary textual content.

Primeau, Thomas, writer of supplementary textual content.

Fisher, Jay McKean, 1949- writer of supplementary textual content.

Ross, Kristin, writer of supplementary textual content.

Chromati, Theresa, 1992- writer of supplementary textual content.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954--Exhibitions.

Matisse, Henri.

Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954--Friends and associates--Exhibitions.

Cone, Etta--Friends and associates--Exhibitions.

Cone, Etta.

Cone, Etta--Art collections--Exhibitions.

Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954.

Baltimore Museum of Art.

Art--Private collections--Maryland--Baltimore--Exhibitions.

Art.

Baltimore Museum of Art--Exhibitions.

Art--Collectors and collecting.

Art, French--Private collections.

Friendship in art.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Women art collectors.

Art--Private collections.

Art museums.

Friends and associates.

Maryland--Baltimore.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Exhibition catalogs.

History.

Physical Description:

263 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 32 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : The Baltimore Museum of Art, [2021]

Summary:

"This exhibition explores the 43-year friendship between artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and Baltimore collector Etta Cone (1870-1949). More than 160 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and illustrated books provide new insights into the formation of the renowned Cone Collection, one of the greatest collections of modern art in the United States. Etta, with her older sister Claribel (1864-1929), acquired more than 700 works by Matisse between 1906 and 1949 and bequeathed the majority of them to the BMA as part of a gift of 3,000 objects. Etta's dedication and curiosity ultimately lent the Cone collection its characteristic depth and breadth. After accepting Etta's invitation to visit her in Baltimore in 1930, Matisse realized he could have a major U.S. presence, and began creating and offering Etta specific works of art with the Cone collection in mind." Among these works are masterpieces such as The Yellow Dress (1929-31) and Large Reclining Nude (1935), rarely shown drawings, and the preliminary studies for his first illustrated book, Poems by Stéphane Mallarmé (1932). The works in the exhibition are generally arranged by acquisition date, demonstrating Cone's increasingly discerning eye for Matisse's work throughout their long partnership. A fully illustrated catalog accompanying the exhibition contains new scholarship on the formal, technical, and social aspects of the decades-long working partnership between artist and patron.

Contents:

Director's foreword

Chère Mademoiselle Cone, Cher Monsieur Matisse : the enduring friendship between Henri Matisse and Etta Cone / Katherine Rothkopf

Etta's beard : playing hide-and-seek with Henri Matisse / Leslie Cozzi

Sculptural patronage in two modes : Etta Cone and the bronzes of Henri Matisse / Oliver Shell

Matisse's drawings for 'The yellow dress' / Thomas Primeau

Mallarmé's 'Poems' / Jay McKean Fisher

Elsewhere as pastiche / Kristin Ross

Plates / with remarks by Theresa Chromati

Works in the exhibition.

Notes:

"This catalogue is published by The Baltimore Museum of Art on the occasion of the exhibition 'A Modern Influence: Henri Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore', presented October 3, 2021-January 2, 2022"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-262) and index.

ISBN:

9780578888187

0578888181

OCLC:

1284925924