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Date | 1917 (other sources say 1916-1917 even 1918) | ||||||||||||||||
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Title | The beautiful confectioner - the beautiful chocolate maker - The Chocolatiere - Seated woman with hands crossed | ||||||||||||||||
Materials | Oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||
Size | 99 x 65 cm (In exhib. 1935 = 100.3 x 64.7 - Restellini 100 x 75) | ||||||||||||||||
Signature: | Signed "modigliani" top right | ||||||||||||||||
Actual Location | Marina Picasso Collection ? | ||||||||||||||||
Provenance | -?- ? Henri Galilee, Paris ? Reid & Lefevre Galleries, 1929 Mc Donald Collection, London (in 1933-34) London, Alex. reid & Lefevre, Ltd., June 1938 Bignou Gallery, New York (from 1938 to ?) Vladimir Horowitz Collection, New York Paul Rosenberg & Co Bright Collection, Los Angeles (in 1961) Marina Picasso Collection, Switzerland For sale at XXV Biennale des Antiquaires, Paris 2010 ( no sale results given or unsold?) ? |
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Bibliography | -?- Dale, Modigliani, Knopf, New York, 1929 - nº 41 dated 1917 and as Chanteuse de Café-Concert , pl. 16 Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana nº 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milano, 1932, pl. 9 Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana nº 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milano, 1936-XIV, pl. 11 Newspaper - New York Telegram - 19th February 1938 Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 194 (dated 1917) Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 174 (dated 1916) Decrooq-Restellini, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002 - nº 47, pp. 242- 243 (Marc Restellini dates in 1916) In process |
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Exhibitions | -?- London, Paintings by Amedeo Modigliani, Reid & Lefevre Galleries, 1929 - nº 7 Brussels, Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition. Palais des beaux-arts, 1933 - nº 27 Basel, Amedeo Modigliani, Kunsthalle, 1934 - nº 19 Montreal, The School of Paris, Unknown venue, 1936 - nº 20 New York, Bignou Gallery - February March 1938 - nº 4 London, The Tragic Painters, Alex. reid & Lefevre, Ltd., June 1938 - nº 5 (size in catalogue 100.3 x 64.7) and signature located in lower right?? Long time lent to Los Angeles County Museum of Art Boston. Modigliani: Paintings and Drawings. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, 1961 - nº 23 (dated 1917) Los Angeles. Modigliani: Paintings and Drawings. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum, 1961 - nº 23 (dated 1917) Paris, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002 - nº 47 (dates in 1916) XXV Biennale des Antiquaires, Paris 2010, Galerie Jan Krugier Ditesheim & Cie, Geneva Genova, Modigliani, Palazzo Duccale, 2017 In process |
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Other | Nº 27 in D'Atri papers following the Brussels exhibition numbers and located in Macdonald collection but the numer then was crossed and give to a Zborowska portrait from the Netter Collection and later appears again as Nº 145 title "La Chocolatiere" size 100 x 65 painted in Paris 1917 but very near to 1916 named as a "badly done example" with provenance: Gallilée, Paris 1929 Macdonald, London 1929 Hatfield, California USA Collection Property of the Image Bignou, Paris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Detail of signature in visible normal light: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The eyes / eyebrows of this painting: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Detail of the ear where the drawing with colors and black detail is visible and is painted over the color (on top of the color) very strongly applied. Hands detail: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The painting framed at the XXV Biennale des Antiquaires, Paris 2010, Galerie Jan Krugier Ditesheim & Cie, Geneva: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The painting seems to have the same model as the next: |
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