madame dorival by amedeo modigliani
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
NO Nº130 Nº122 YES YES Nº 125 YES ?
Date 1916 ? (Restellini dates in 1917)
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)
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Karl Im Obersteg  Collection, Basel, Switzerland

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland ( Inv. Nº IM1361) in permanent loan since 2004

In process

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

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

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)
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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.

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Canvas presents holes in the 4 corners, so it must have been painted against a wall or wood instead of in an easel:
holes in the 4 corners of madame dorival by modigliani
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Image of the painting framed at Basel Kunstmuseum

Actual frame:
madame dorival by amedeo modigliani in the actual frame at basel museum
Previous frame at Basel Museum:
madame dorival framed with a non gilded frame at basel
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