the beautiful confectioner
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
Nº 146 NO? NO NO? ? NO YES ? ?
Date 1917 (other sources say 1916-1917 even 1918)
Title Head of Brunette - The Chocolate maker- woman bust - woman head
Materials Oil on canvas ? (most probably a cardboard, there is no french standard canvas size that matches this sizes)
Size 46 x 40 cm ?
Signature: Signed "modigliani" top right
Actual Location Unknown location / Private Collection ?
Provenance -?-

Léopold Zborowski, Paris
Netter Collection, Paris (in 1928?)
Bignou Collection, Paris
London, Alex. reid & Lefevre, Ltd., June 1938
Private Collection, Paris
?
Unknown location

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Bernheim Jeune gives this other provenance:

Sale: Hotel des ventes, Paris 23/June/1928
Bernheim Jeune (Acquired above)
Sold to Alex Reid & Lefevre 5/December/1928 for 50.000 FF


Bibliography -?-

Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 24
Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana nº 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milano, 1936-XIV, pl. 12 (as Testa di donna- London, Alex. Reid & Lefevre Collection- dated 1917)
Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 146 (as Tete de Femme Brune - la chocolatière - dated 1917)
Patrice/ Dauberville, Amedeo Modigliani chez Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 2015 - nº 45

In process
Exhibitions -?-

London, Paintings by Amedeo Modigliani, Reid & Lefevre Galleries, 1929 - nº 8


In process
Other
Nº 146 in D'Atri papers as "La Chocolatiere" size 45.5 x 40 with provenance Netter Paris 1928 > Bignou, Paris >

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I have never seen this painting live or in color reproduction.

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Detail of signature
signature


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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.

ear


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




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