Henri Matisse and Henri Matisse, Presentation Maquette, Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé
Study for “Le Tombeau de Charles Baudelaire”
1930-1931
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Study for “Le Tombeau de Charles Baudelaire”
1930-1931
Physical Qualities
Graphite with erasing and stumping on paper (recto); graphite (verso), Sheet: 317 x 238 mm. (12 1/2 x 9 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.12.903
Purchased by Etta Cone from Marie Harriman gallery, Dec 1932
Kim Schenck, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Matisse: Drawing Defined', Aug. 21-Nov. 10, 2002.
BMA, "Henri Matisse: The Spirited Line--Works on Paper, 1898-1950, from the Museum Collection," 7 September - 2 November 1986.
Victor Carlson, BMA, "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. no. 49.
BMA, "Henri Matisse: The Spirited Line--Works on Paper, 1898-1950, from the Museum Collection," 7 September - 2 November 1986.
Victor Carlson, BMA, "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. no. 49.
Cone, Etta. The Cone Collection of Baltimore, Maryland: Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. [Baltimore, MD]: [Etta Cone], 1934, plate 93.
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, page 105, figure 41, ill.
Sarda, Marie-Anne. Matisse et Mallarmé. Vulaines-sur-Seine: Musée départemental Stéphane Mallarmé, 2002, page 139, fig. 56 (published as “Dessin préparatoire (Baudelaire III) pour ‘Le Tombeau de Charles Baudelaire’, ètude pour Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé”).
Inscribed: lower right in graphite: "Ch. Baudelaire III / Henri - Matisse"
Markings: No watermark Chopmark: MALLARME ET MATISSE
