Lunia Czechowska by amedeo modigliani
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
Nº 185 Nº 234 Nº 172 YES 23/1917 Nº 177 YES YES
Date 1917 (1918?)
Title Lunia Czechowska - Madame Tsechowska - Head of Lunia Czechowska frontal
Materials Oil on cardboard (Parisot say oil on paper and later oil on canvas - Pfannstiel Oil on canvas - Restellini Oil on canvas/marouflé sur carton)
Size 46 x 38 cm (Pfannstiel say 55 x 46)
Signature: Signed "modigliani" top right
Actual Location Private Collection?
Provenance -?-

Leopold Zborowski, Paris
Galerie Bing, Paris
Lepoutre Collection, Paris
Bernheim Jeune Gallery, Paris (1952)
Bourdon Collection, Paris (1952 - 1990)

Sale: Hotel Drouot. Paintings & Watercolours from Madame Bourdon's Collection, 25 march, 1990 auction by Guy Loudmer - Lot 35
Sold for: 22.500.000 French francs

Private Collection?

In process

Bibliography -?-

Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 30 - nº 4
Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 185 (incorrectly as oil on canvas and wrong size, dated 1917)
Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - nº 140
Russoli, Amedeo Modigliani, Fratelli Fabbri, Milano, 1963 - nº 7
Gindertael, Shop libre diffusion, 1967, pl. 37
Miensili d'Arte, Modigliani and the painters of Montparnasse, Fratelli Fabbri, Milano, 1967 - nº 27
Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 234 (incorrectly as oil on canvas, dated 1917)
Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 172 (incorrectly as oil on canvas, dated 1917)
Hubbard, Modigliani and the painters of Montparnasse, Lamplight Publ. New York, 1975, pl. 27
Parisot, Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1988, p. 159
Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 - nº 23/1917 (incorrectly as oil on paper)
Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 177 as Head of Lunia Czechowska frontal - dated 1917
Parisot, Modigliani, Pierre Terrail, Paris, 1992, p. 121 - dated 1917 - as oil on canvas
Decrooq-Restellini, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002 (mention to this work as an original Modiglini, mentioned as Ceroni nº 172 in p. 296)
Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007

In process

Exhibitions -?-

Paris, Peintres de portraits, Galerie Bernheim Jeune, 1952 - nº 42 as Madame Tsechowska
Bern, Modigliani, Campigli, Sironi, Kunsthalle, 1955- nº 19
Paris, Cent Tableaux de Modigliani, Galerie Charpentier, 1958 - nº 67
Frankfurt, Steinernes Haus, 1963 - nº 21
Martigny, Modigliani, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1990 - nº 73 (dated 1917-1918, as oil on cardboard)
Madrid, Modigliani y su tiempo, Museo Nacional Thyssen Bornemisza, 2008 (dated 1917-1918, incorrectly as oil on wood)
Bonn, Amedeo Modigliani: Ein Mythos der Moderne, Bundesrepublik, 2009 - nº 96 (as oil on canvas)

In process

Other Not in D' Atri papers

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This work was part of a huge scandal that reflected clearly the dark side of the art market , you can read in this link >

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Lunia Czechowska amedeo modigliani Lunia Czechowska amedeo modigliani Lunia Czechowska amedeo modigliani
Ceroni nº 170 - 1917
Lunia Czechowska
81 x 45 cm
Oil on canvas
Ceroni nº 171 - 1917
Lunia Czechowska
72.8 x 45 cm
Oil on canvas
Ceroni nº 172 - 1917
Lunia Czechowska
46 x 38 cm
Oil on cardboard
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Detail of the ear where the drawing is clearly visible and is painted over the color (on top of the color)

lunia ears


-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

the painting in display at Paris, Peintres de portraits, Galerie Bernheim Jeune, 1952 - nº 42 as Madame Tsechowska



  This page is a work on progress, nothing in this page should be considered as final or definitive.