- Claribel and Etta Cone - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In 1926 they secured the artist’s early masterpiece Blue Nude (1907) at the sale of John Quinn’s collection in Paris
- Art Collectors Claribel and Etta Cone Left Baltimore With One of Its . . .
Painted by Matisse nearly 30 years apart, the “Blue Nude” and the “Pink Nude” form a perfect set, and a fitting reflection of their owners The first was purchased by Dr Claribel Cone in 1926, and the second by her younger sister, Etta Cone, a decade later
- Art historian describes eccentric sisters’ acquisition of world-class art
In 1926, Etta bought Matisse’s Blue Nude, one of the standouts of the Cone collection The painting originally belonged to Leo Stein, and it created a stir in the 1913 Armory Show in New
- The Cone Sisters: Collectors for Pleasure
In 1905 Claribel and Etta, accompanied by Gertrude and Leo Stein, visited the Salon d'Automne in Paris and were shocked by the work of the "Fauves" -but shock did not mean indifference
- Baltimore Museum of Art, Home to Largest Matisse Collection, Will Open . . .
Upon Etta ’s death in 1949, the Cone sisters bequeathed these holdings, as well as masterpieces by the likes of Picasso, Cézanne, Gauguin and van Gogh, to the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA)
- The Dispersal of the John Quinn Collection - JSTOR
These were the A L Rosenberg sale at the Anderson Galleries in 1918, the Dikran K K616kian collection sale in 1922, and the sale of Marius de Zayas's collection in 1923 23 Quinn had distinguished himself as one of the few thusiastic bidders at these earlier auctions
- BMA exhibit traces friendship between Matisse and Etta Cone
“For years, scholars have debated the purchases made by both Cone sisters, with much more credit given to the important acquisitions of major paintings by older sister Claribel,” the BMA said
- BMA Exhibition Captures Significance of the 43-Year Friendship Between . . .
BALTIMORE, MD (May 24, 2021) — This fall, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) will present the first comprehensive exhibition to explore the singular 43-year friendship between Baltimore collector Etta Cone (1870-1949) and French modern master Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
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