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Date | 1917 (the museum dates in 1917) | ||||||||||||||||
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Title | Girl in a green blouse - Le Corsage Vert - Femme au corsage vert | ||||||||||||||||
Materials | Oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||
Size | 81.3 x 46 cm | ||||||||||||||||
Signature: | Signed "modigliani" top right | ||||||||||||||||
Actual Location | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. USA (Inv. Nº 1963.10.45) | ||||||||||||||||
Provenance | -?- ? Patani say Georges Chéron Collection, Paris but there is no proof of this ---------------------------- Mme. Carrière collection, Paris Bernheim Jeune Galerie, Paris (acquired from above 19 / march / 1921 - Inv. Nº 22585) Mme. Bosch Collection, Paris? (acquired from above 8 / February /1922 - 3.000 FF) ? Marcel Norero Collection, Paris Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 14 February 1927, p.80, as Le Corsage Vert Bignou, Paris (sold to Chester Dale 5-April-1927) Chester Dale Collection, New York (acquired from above 1927) National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA (Inv. Nº 1963.10.45) Chester Dale Bequest in 1963 to NGA In process |
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Bibliography | -?- Dale, Modigliani, Knopf, New York, 1929 - nº 37 as Le corsage vert Dale, Before Manet to Modigliani from the Chester Dale Collection, New York, 1929 - nº 100 as Le corsage vert Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 22 as Le corsage vert Read, "The Chester Dale Collection." Vogue 25 - 15 February 1930, p. 81 Philadelphia, Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. 1943 - as The Green Blouse Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 137 as Le corsage vert (dated in 1917) National Gallery of Art, Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965, p. 90 National Gallery of Art, Twentieth Century French Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965, p. 62 National Gallery of Art, uropean Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968, p. 80 Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 407 (dated in 1919) Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 114 (dated in 1916) National Gallery of Art, European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975, p. 234 Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984, p. 586 - nº 899 National Gallery of Art, European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985, p. 272 Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 118 (dated in 1916) Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007 In process |
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Exhibitions | -?- Paris, Modigliani, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1922 - nº 22 -titled Femme au corsage vert Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1922 Glasgow, A Century of French Painting, McLellan Gallery, 1927 - nº 54 London, Paintings by Amedeo Modigliani, Reid & Lefevre Galleries, 1929 New York, Amedeo Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Demotte, Inc., 1931 - nº 15 Philadelphia, Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1943-1951 Washington, D.C, The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965 Washington, D.C., Modigliani: An Anniversary Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, 1983-84 In process |
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Other | Nº 191 in D'Atri papers - size 80.5 x 45 dated 1917 with reference to the Nonero sale in 1927 and Bignou provenance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Detail of signature in visible normal light: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This painting presents holes in the 3 corners (probably 4th is covered by restoration) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The eyes / eyebrow / eyelash / nose of this painting: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This painting present a complete fingerprint set of the 4 fingers of the right hand of an unknown person. This fingerprints were stamped when the oil painting was fresh and recent and are the result of handlimg the work . There is one ring finger on the top center and other 3 and the same ring finger in the bottom center: Finger print in the top center: Finger prints in the bottom: On top the visual image on bottom the negative IR to enhance the image ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The painting framed at the National Gallery of Art in 2018, as can be seen in the lower images the frame is the same since the 40's only the plaque has been removed: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The painting framed at the Chester Dale Apartment in New York, photo dated in 1941: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The painting framed at the Chester Dale Apartment at the Plaza in New York, photo dated in 1961: |
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