alice
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
Nº 362 Nº 288 Nº 69 YES 26/1915 Nº 71 ? YES
Date 1917 - 1918? ( Parisot, Patani, Ceroni in 1915 - Lanthemann, Wayne and the SMK in 1918 - Pfannstiel in 1920) I personally bet 1916-17
Title Alice
Materials Oil on canvas
Size 78.5 x 39 cm
Signature: Signed "Modigliani" top right in white - text in top left in black "ALICE" - Back of the canvas, the text : "MODIGLIANI. 3 JOSEPH BARA. PARIS / JUIN 1917"
Actual Location National Gallery of Denmark SMK, Copenhagen, Denmark (Inv. Nº KMSr145)
Provenance -?-
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Georges Chéron, Paris (Patani say 1915-16? the painting was made in 1917 therefore a mistake)
Thorkild Henningsen Collection
Sale of Henningsen Collection - Dansk Kunsthandel, Copenhagen 20-21/5/ 1919
Wils Collection, Copenhagen
Rump Collection, Copenhagen

National Gallery of Denmark SMK, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Royal Collection of Paintings and Sculptures (Inv. Nº KMSr145)
Acquired by the museum in 1928

In process

Bibliography -?-

Exhib. Cat., Katalog J. Rumps Samling af Moderne Fransk Kunst, 1948, p. 101
Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 362 (dated 1920)
Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani : dessins et sculptures ; avec suite du catalogue illustre des peintures, Edizioni del Milione, Milano, 1965, p. 176
Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 288 (dated 1918)
Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 69 (dated 1915)
Zurcher, Modigliani, Ed. F. Hazan, Paris, 1980 - nº 13
Orion Press, Tokyo, 1989 - nº 11
Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 - 26/1915 (dated 1915)
Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 71 (dated 1915)
Da Rosa, Modigliani, Giunti G. E, Firenze, 1996, pp. 50-51
Wayne, Modigliani & the Artists of Montparnasse, Abrams-Albright-knox gallery, New York, 2002, p. 109 - nº 32 (dated in 1918)
Fraquelli, Modigliani, Fort Worth and Paris, in Burlington Magazine, nº 145, 2003, pp. 254-255
Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007
Norbert, Modigliani und seine Zeit, Leipzig 2014, p. 109

In process


Exhibitions -?-

Copenhagen, Franske mesterværker fra Matisse til Picasso, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 1996-1997
Fort Worth, Modigliani and the artists of Montparnasse, Kimbell art Museum, 2003 - nº 32
Los Angeles, Modigliani and the artists of Montparnasse, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2003 - nº 32

In process

Other
Not in D'Atri papers.

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Detail of signature in visible normal light:
signature

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This painting presents holes in the 4 corners

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The eyes of this painting:

eyes


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Detail of the brushstroke and the heavy impasto:

detail of brushstroke

Detail of the use of the opposite side of the brush ( sthe stick ) to make the lines deeper and stronger:

lines of the hair

Detail of the heavy impasto that forms the face, a sculptural construction:

skin tone and impasto

Detail of the visual construction of the work where the under drawing made with a brush still visible and the
chain or thread where the cross was hanging is not in the final design and the cross is made with 2 simple brush strokes:
(originally hanging from the neck, becames a brooch)

visual construction

All the above is even more obvious when you look art the Infra red image of the painting:

IR

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The painting framed at the National Gallery of Denmark in 2017:

The painting framed at the National Gallery of Denmark in 2017



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