The museum added a contemporary wing in 1995, with an entrance to it right in the middle of the Cone Collection.

It is located at the Baltimore Museum of Art as part of the Cone Collection.

This will be the first major group of works from the Cone Collection to be shown abroad.

But the problem has always been that a handful of objects from the Cone Collection have always been committed to shows years ahead.

The 500 works by Matisse in the Cone Collection form the largest and most representative group of his works of art in the world.

Upon Etta's death in 1949, the Cone Collection was donated to the Baltimore Museum of Art.

The estimated value today of the Cone Collection is $1 billion.

Mr. Lehman said his museum's trustees had established a fee for the loan of the Cone Collection to Houston, but he would not say how much it was.

The Cone Collection is one of the greatest in the world for these artists.

The same kind of arrangement was made with the Cone Collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art.