the beautiful confectioner
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
Nº 194 Nº 173 NO YES ? NO YES ?
Date 1917 (other sources say 1916-1917 even 1918)
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 -?-

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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

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

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

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Detail of signature in visible normal light:
signature


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The eyes / eyebrows of this painting:


eyes

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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:

hands
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The painting framed at the XXV Biennale des Antiquaires, Paris 2010, Galerie Jan Krugier Ditesheim & Cie, Geneva:

The painting framed at theXXV Biennale des Antiquaires, Paris 2010, Galerie Jan Krugier Ditesheim & Cie, Geneva


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The painting seems to have the same model as the next:
chocolatieramedeo modigliani
bust of woman
Woman seated in front of door amedeo modigliani
elvira





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