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Claribel, Gertrude Stein and Etta |
Matisse’s
relationship with Claribel and Etta was intense and enduring. He called them, “my two Baltimore
ladies”. They were remarkable women
who funded their buying from a family fortune made in supplying denim to
manufacturers like Levi Strauss.
The older Claribel graduated medical school in 1890, unusual for a woman,
especially of her social class. Etta
managed the family home and made her first art purchases with $300 given her to buy
decorations for it. Matisse’s ladies
became major benefactors from his early struggling days when the work was
considered radical to the mid 20th century when Etta died. And he was not the only artist to attract
their attention. The collection includes
works by Van Gogh, Gauguin and of course Picasso.
Perhaps
what’s so remarkable about Picasso and Matisse is their breathtaking
output. The first was particularly
prolific, as exemplified in the monumental Picasso Black and White
now at New York’s Guggenheim, the 2011
traveling exhibition last seen at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts or the
stunning shows (the most recent of his final paintings) at the Gagosian. Each of these shows included many paintings I had never
seen, in part because they are from private collections. The Cone sisters bought 500 Matisse works — the
largest single collection in existence — but only a fraction of his total
output.
Clara and Etta Cone were above all collectors. They
weren’t buying art as an investment but as treasured objects with whom they
could share their habitat. The walls of
their adjoining Baltimore apartments were covered floor to ceiling. Back in August, I wrote about an exhibition
at Duke’s Nasher Museum devoted to the early collecting of Jason Rubell. Now the Nasher has mounted an exhibition of the works selected from of the
Cone Collection that were previously seen at the Jewish Museum in NY and in
Vancouver. The Rubell show is still up
and together these two represent a kind of homage to collecting. For Collecting Matisse and Modern
Masters The Cone Sisters of Baltimore, the large Nasher exhibition space has been beautifully divided up into smaller
intimate “rooms” to reflect more closely how the Cone sisters and their
guests experienced the art.
The
Masters are wonderfully represented by a Van Gogh landscape, one of those that
include a human figure and by Gauguin’s Woman with Mango from his Tahitian
period.
While
much of the space is given over to paintings, sculptures and works on paper,
there is a charming and playful self portrait Picasso sketch calling card with
the inscription: “Bon jour Mlle Cone”.



Matisse spent only a short time in North Africa,
but a group of paintings inspired by the visit are among his most
striking. They are represented here (above) by
another female figure, this time opulently clothed sitting to the left of an
ornate scene including a tray containing a plate of lemons.
Perhaps
one of the most striking works in the show is the much more stylized reclining
nude, often referred to as The Pink Nude, painted in 1935. Matisse did a series
of preparatory pieces for this large (66 x 92 cm) canvas, which Etta couldn’t
resist. Central to the composition is the flesh
colored figure set against a grid pattern that in the final state looks like blue
tile with white grout. That tile pattern
is repeated on the back wall (white with green this time).
Above her is an abstracted object that in his early states was a vase
with flowers. But nothing is more
important than the woman herself. She
dominates both the space and our attention.
It is the exhibit at it’s best.
The
Nasher show runs until February 10, 2013.
The Weatherspoon
is having its own complementary exhibition, The Cone Sisters Collect (selections from
its Cone bequest) an hour’s drive away on the UNC campus in Greensboro. It runs until February 17.
The images from the exhibition were kindly provided by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. The works are owned by The Baltimore Museum of Art.
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