cafe singer
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
Nº 220 Nº 303 NO YES NO? NO ? ?
Date 1917
Title Cafe Singer - Chanteuse de Café-Concert - woman with pendant
Materials Oil on canvas
Size 92.4 x 60.3 cm
Signature: Signed "modigliani" top right
Actual Location National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. USA (Inv. Nº 1963.10.44)
Provenance -?-

Léopold Zborowski, Paris
Menier Collection, Paris
Arthur Tooth and Sons, London
Chester Dale Collection, New York (acquired from above 6-May-1927)

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA (Inv. Nº 1963.10.44)
Chester Dale Bequest in 1963 to NGA



Bibliography -?-

Salmon, Modigliani, sa vie et son oeuvre,Ed. des Quatres Chemins, Paris, 1926, pl. 10
Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 36
Dale, Modigliani, Knopf, New York, 1929 - nº 41 dated 1917 and as Chanteuse de Café-Concert
Philadelphia, Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. 1943 - as Chanteuse de Café-Concert
Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 220 (size 92 x 73)
MacNeil,  "Chester Dale: Collector." McCalls  - November 1963, p. 122 
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. 58
National Gallery of Art, European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968, p. 79
Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 303 (dated 1918)
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 900
National Gallery of Art, European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985, p. 271

In process


Exhibitions -?-

London, Modigliani, Arthur Tooth and Sons, 1926 - nº 11
New York, Amedeo Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Demotte, Inc., 1931 - nº 17
Philadelphia, Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1943-1951
Washington, D.C.,  The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, 1965
Washington, D.C., Modigliani: An Anniversary Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, 1983-84


In process

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


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Detail of signature in visible normal light:
signature

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This painting presents holes in the 2 corners (probably the rest are covered by restoration)

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The eyes / eyebrows of this painting:

eyes

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Detail of the ears where the drawing with colors and black detail is visible and is painted over the color (on top of the color) and the red
areas are too closed, very strongly applied in the Macchiaioli style.




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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 60's only the plaque has been removed:

framed at the National Gallery of Art in 2018

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The painting framed at the Chester Dale Apartment in New York, photo dated in 1941, the frame is another style:

The painting framed at theChester Dale New York Apartment in 1941

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The painting framed at the Chester Dale Apartment at the Plaza in New York, photo dated in 1961, the frame is the actual at the NGA:

The painting framed at the Chester Dale Apartment at the Plaza in New York, photo dated in 1961

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Similitudes with the coffe singer dated in 1918 in a Private Collection are clear:

the cafe singer by amedeo modigliani-Woman with pendant amedeo modigliani

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