Identification

Published titles

English: Great Nude.

Date

1916?
Parisot dates it 1917 (no. 46/1917).

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

72 × 117 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right (not visible in the published image).

Present location

Private collection, recorded with a query.

Catalogue numbers

Legal note on MR: This investigation has not had access to MR’s catalogue raisonné; all research here is based on open sources, publications and exhibitions. By no means has that catalogue been copied at any point. Modigliani Project and Modigliani Initiative are marked YES when the work is published or otherwise recorded by those projects, even if no catalogue number is assigned; otherwise the field is marked ?.

Provenance

1. Léopold Zborowski, Paris (Parisot).
2. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 1 May 1943; expertise by André Schoeller.
3. Hanka Zborowska, 1947 (Parisot; this investigation notes that this would imply a repurchase after the 1943 sale and marks the sequence as unclear).
4. Thereafter unpublished.

The sequence follows the published museum, sale, and catalogue record in this investigation. Gaps and uncertain transfers are marked as such.

Selected bibliography

Book-length publications are marked with a footnote giving a full citation. Exhibition catalogues appear in both this list and the exhibition list when this investigation recorded them in both places. Where this investigation listed a long run of secondary mentions, only the principal catalogues and museum or sale references are retained here.

• Le Journal des Arts, 30 June 1943.
• Galletti and Camesasca, Enciclopedia della pittura italiana, Florence, Garzanti, 1950, p. 1697.
• Pavolini, Modigliani, Buenos Aires, Hermes, 1966, no. 28.
• Angela Ceroni, 1989, cover and pp. 56–57.¹
• Sylvie Buisson, Musée de Montmartre, 1990, no. 3.
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 46/1917.²
• Christian Parisot, Modigliani, Paris, Pierre Terrail, 1992, p. 211.

Exhibitions

• Milan, La donna nell’arte, 1960.
• Milan, Galleria del Milione, no. 75507 (stamp on the stretcher, as recorded).
• Milan, Galleria Annunciata, no. 5405 (stamp on the reverse, as recorded).

Notes

This investigation marks the work as not located in the D’Atri papers.

Published documentation for this file is thin. Catalogue numbers, exhibitions and bibliography are given only where this investigation recorded them.

The working notes for this investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.