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Date | 1916 ? (Restellini dates in 1917) | ||||||||||||||||
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Title | Madame Dorival - Mme. Dorival - Woman head - Woman bust | ||||||||||||||||
Materials | Oil on canvas? (canvas presents holes in the 4 corners) | ||||||||||||||||
Size | 61 x 38 cm? ( Ceroni 65 x 45 - Restellini, patani 61 x 38) | ||||||||||||||||
Signature: | Signed " modigliani" upper right | ||||||||||||||||
Actual Location | Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland ( Inv. Nº IM1361) | ||||||||||||||||
Provenance | -?- Dorival Collection, Paris (the portrayed) ? Georges Chéron Gallery, Paris Bing gallery, Paris (1946) ? Karl Im Obersteg Collection, Basel, Switzerland Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland ( Inv. Nº IM1361) in permanent loan since 2004 In process |
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Bibliography | -?- (Probably Nº 168 in Pfannstiel, size does not match but the rest would be possible, nut there is no way to be sure) Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970, nº 130 Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 , nº 122 ( wrong measures and location) Lanthemann-Parisot. MODIGLIANI INCONNU: suivi de précisions et documents inédits. Brescia, Shakespeare and Company, 1978, p. 50 Goldwater, Primitivism in Modern Art, Cambridge Mass./London 1986, pp. 125–130. Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94, nº 125 Decrooq-Restellini, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002 pp. 205-251 In process |
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Exhibitions | -?- Verona, Modigliani a Montparnasse, Palazzo Forti, 1988 ? Paris, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, nº 51 Milano, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Palazzo Reale, 2003 Martigny, Modigliani & the school of Paris, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2013 Madrid, Collectionism and Modernity - Two Case Studies: The Im Obersteg and Rudolf Staechelin Collections, Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía, 2015 Washington D.C., GAUGUIN TO PICASSO: MASTERWORKS FROM SWITZERLAND - The Staechelin & Im Obersteg Collections, The Phillips Collection, 2015-2016 In process |
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Other | Ceroni in his text mentions that the portrayed was the wife of a famous actor and collector named Dorival (Georges Edouard Lemarchand, 1871-1939) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All the historians reflect the amazing yellows and oranges of the face, this work has a totally undoubted origin, I have read reports with similar colors of works called forgery for bearing exactly the same features. The original colors of the painting are the ones at top image, usually the photographers tend to dilute the agressive colors with xtra light or less contrast. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Canvas presents holes in the 4 corners, so it must have been painted against a wall or wood instead of in an easel: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Image of the painting framed at Basel Kunstmuseum Actual frame: Previous frame at Basel Museum: | ||||||||||||||||
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