Pablo Picasso
Reclining Nude Woman
1905
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Pablo Picasso
Reclining Nude Woman
1905
Physical Qualities
Black chalk with stumping on paper
, Sheet: 466 × 622 mm. (18 3/8 × 24 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.12.651
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, by purchase; Michael and Sarah Stein; possibly Leo and Gertrude Stein
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.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family," 16 December 1970 - 1 March 1971; BMA, 4 April - 13 June, 1971; San Francisco Museum, 30 September - 31 October 1971.
The Wildenstein Gallery, NY, "Cone Collection from The Baltimore Museum of Art: A Benefit Exhibition at Wildenstein, New York," 29 March - 11 May 1974.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
BMA, "Picasso: The Museum Collection," 11 July - 27 August 1989.
"Masterpieces from the Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, October 1991 - January 1992.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "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.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, "Impressionism to Surrealism From the Baltimore Museum of Art. Selections from the Collection of Claribel and Etta Cone, Saidie Adler May and Blanche Adler," 8 February - 21 April 2002, no. 39, p. 20.
Katy Rothkopf, "Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris," circulated to North Carolina Museum of Art, October 10, 2004 - January 16, 2005, and the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, March 2 - June 3, 2007.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family," 16 December 1970 - 1 March 1971; BMA, 4 April - 13 June, 1971; San Francisco Museum, 30 September - 31 October 1971.
The Wildenstein Gallery, NY, "Cone Collection from The Baltimore Museum of Art: A Benefit Exhibition at Wildenstein, New York," 29 March - 11 May 1974.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
BMA, "Picasso: The Museum Collection," 11 July - 27 August 1989.
"Masterpieces from the Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, October 1991 - January 1992.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "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.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, "Impressionism to Surrealism From the Baltimore Museum of Art. Selections from the Collection of Claribel and Etta Cone, Saidie Adler May and Blanche Adler," 8 February - 21 April 2002, no. 39, p. 20.
Katy Rothkopf, "Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris," circulated to North Carolina Museum of Art, October 10, 2004 - January 16, 2005, and the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, March 2 - June 3, 2007.
Waldemar George , "Picasso, Dessins," Paris: Editions des Quatre Chemins, 1926, pl. 4.
"Cone Collection of Baltimore, Maryland," Baltimore: Etta Cone, 1934, pl. 103, bottom.
Adelyn Breeskin, "Early Picasso Drawings in the Cone Collection," "Magazine of Art," vol. XLV, no. 3, March 1952, p. 109, pl. 4.
Pierre Daix and Georges Boudaille, "Picasso, the Blue and Rose Periods: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1900-1906," London: Evelyn, Adams and Mackay, 1967, D.XVI.14.
"The Cone Collection. " rev. ed., Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1967 no. 316.
Christian Zervos, "Pablo Picasso, Vol. XXII," Paris: Editions Cahiers d'Art, 1970, no. 463.
"Selection V: French Watercolors and Drawings from the Museum's Collection, ca. 1800-1910," Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1975, p. 130.
Victor I. Carlson, "Picasso: Drawings and Watercolors, 1899-1907 in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1976, cat. 43.
Karen Levitov, "Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore," New York: The Jewish Museum, 2011, pp. 30, 77, pl. 6, ill.
Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow, eds., "The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde," San Francisco: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2011.
Inscribed: upper left in chalk: "Picasso"
Markings: WM: Ingres 1871; WM: monogram with C F and (France) below
