Moise Kisling
Vase of Peonies with Abstract Background
1916
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Moise Kisling
Vase of Peonies with Abstract Background
1916
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, 13 3/4 x 10 11/16 in. (34.9 x 27.1 cm.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.338
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, by purchase, October 19, 1928; Charles Girard, Paris
Adelyn D. Breeskin, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Cone Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture", April 1, 1930-December 1, 1930, no. 8 or 9. (possibly exhibited as "Still Life, Flowers")
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Cone Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1930, p. 5, no.8 or 9. (possibly published as "Still Life, Flowers")
Etta Cone, "The Cone Collection of Baltimore-Maryland," Baltimore: Etta Cone, 1934, p. 23. (Possibly published as "Nature Morte" or "Fleurs")
Brenda Richardson, "Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta: The Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1985, p. 180.
Dianne Sachko Macleod, "Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects: American Women Collectors and the Making of Culture, 1800-1940," Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008, p. 202, fig. 78, ill.
Inscribed: Recto: Lower right in black paint, "Kisling 1917" Verso: Top right canvas in black grease pencil, "M. KiSLiNG/ST. TROPEZ/JANViER 1917" Lower right stretcher in black grease pencil, "231" Top left corner, "hli" Top center, stamped, "5F" Frame Inscriptions Verso: Center of right vertical rail, indecipherable writing
