Henri Matisse
Small Crouching Nude without an Arm
1907
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Henri Matisse
Small Crouching Nude without an Arm
1907
Physical Qualities
Bronze, 5 x 2 5/8 x 3 5/8 in. (12.7 x 6.7 x 9.2 cm.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.432
This installation of works by Henri Matisse with an ornate desk recreates a wall of Etta Cone’s living room in Baltimore (see image). For Cone, her apartment was a space for family and highlighting personal travels with works of art acquired while away from home. She displayed paintings of odalisques, or concubines, appearing semi-nude or clad in costumes, which Europeans and Americans associated with the Eastern Mediterranean world. While Matisse claimed to have seen odalisques during his travels, he was more likely inspired by Persian and Islamic art he avidly studied in museums across Europe and collected in North Africa.
Installed with BMA 1950.255; 1950.428; and on 1950.1985.8-.9
(Please see Text Entries for image used on label.)
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, by purchase from the artist summer 1922, Paris
Brenda Richardson, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, "Matisse in The Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art", August 24-October 14, 1979.
Dorothy Kosinski, Jay McKean Fisher, Steven Nash; BMA, Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, "Matisse: Painter as Sculptor", Dallas, January 21-April 29, 2007; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 9-September 16, 2007; The Baltimore Museum of Art, October 28, 2007-February 3, 2008, cat. no. 65, p. 271, ill. pp. 184,185.
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, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 3 November 2012-10 February 2013.
Dorothy Kosinski, Jay McKean Fisher, Steven Nash; BMA, Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, "Matisse: Painter as Sculptor", Dallas, January 21-April 29, 2007; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 9-September 16, 2007; The Baltimore Museum of Art, October 28, 2007-February 3, 2008, cat. no. 65, p. 271, ill. pp. 184,185.
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, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 3 November 2012-10 February 2013.
Etta Cone, "The Cone Collection of Baltimore, Maryland" (Baltimore: 1934) plate. # 121a.
'Cone Bequest,' "BMA News," Oct. 1949, no. 119.
"Handbook of the Cone Collection," (Baltimore: BMA, 1955) 45, no. 150.
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., "Matisse: His Art and His Public," (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1951) 557.
Albert Elsen, 'The Sculpture of Matisse, Part III: Primitivism, Partial Figures and Portraits,' "Art Forum," 7: 3, Nov. 1968, p. 26f.
Albert Elsen, "The Sculpture of Matisse," (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1972) 101, 106.
Alicia Legg, "The Sculpture of Matisse," (New York: MOMA, 1972) 21.
Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, "The Sculpture of Henri Matisse," (London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1984) cat. # 30.
Kosinski, Dorothy, Jay McKean Fisher, and Steven Nash. Matisse: Painter as Sculptor. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art; Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art: Nasher Sculpture Center; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, page 23, fig. 24.
Karen Levitov, "Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore," New York: The Jewish Museum, 2011, pp. 34, 76, pl. 10, 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: "HM 6/10" on the left leg.
Markings: No foundry stamp.
