NUDE ON THE BACK BY AMEDEO MODIGLIANI
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
Nº 325 Nº 149 Nº 201 YES 39/1917 Nº 209 YES YES
Date 1917
Title Reclining nude (on the back) - Nu Couché sur le dos - Nude lying on back - Nude lying on her back
Materials Oil on canvas
Size 65 x 100 cm ?
Signature: Signed "modigliani" top left
Actual Location Private Collection, London?
Provenance -?-

Léopold Zborowski, Paris
Galerie Weill, Paris (1917)?
Léopold Zborowski, Paris
Coquiot Collection, Paris
Galerie Bing, Paris
Crespau Collection, Paris (1929)
Private Collection, Switzerland
Rafael Crespo Collection, Buenos Aires (1931)
Rockefeller Collection, New York ?
N. Collection, London?


In Process

Bibliography -?-

Coquiot, Cubistes Futuristes Passétistes, Paris, 1923, p. 124
Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana nº 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milano, 1927, pl. 25 (in Coquiot Collection)
Scheiwiller, Editions des Chroniques du jour, Paris, 1928 , pl. 23
Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 54
Scheiwiller, Art Italien Moderne, Paris, 1930, p. 62
Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana nº 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milan, 1950, pl. 36
San Lazzaro, Modigliani peintures, Les Éditions du Chêne, Paris, 1953, p. 8
Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 352 (dated 1920)
Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - nº 118
Diehl, Modigliani, Ed. Flamarion, Paris, 1969, p. 60
Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 413 (dated 1919)
Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 201
Mann, Modigliani, Thames and Hudson, London, 1980, p. 159 - nº 117
Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 - 39/1917
Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 209
Kruszynski. Amedeo Modigliani: Portraits and Nudes. Munich, 1996, p. 85
Decrooq-Restellini, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, pp. 308-309 (dated in 1917)
Klein / PollockModigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004-2005, pl. 14, p. 67
Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007


In process
Exhibitions -?-

Paris, Modigliani , Berthe Weill Gallery, 1917 ?
Paris, Modigliani retrospective, Marcel Bernheim (Galerie Bernheim-Jeune), 1931 - nº 24 ( Nu Couché dated in 1918)
Paris, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002 - nº 67
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In process
Other Nº 253 in D' Atri papers dated 1919 - titled Nu Couche - 65 x 100 - Coquiot Collection

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Detail of signature in visible normal light:

NUDE SIGNATURE DETAIL

Signature position (not visible in general image):
signature


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The eye / nose of this painting is absolutely exceptional in Modigliani, somehow reflect a style Modigliani used from the end of 1915 to the first months
of 1918 but they are unique in Modigliani works (Modigliani was doing experiments and this just means evolution):

eye-nose


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Detail of the ear where the contour is clearly visible & detailed, all the small details and shadow/volumes are painted over the color (on top of the color)

DETAIL OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE EARS OF LEON BAKST BY AMEDEO MODIGLIANI


hand-ear



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