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Date | 1917 (1918?) | ||||||||||||||||
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Detail of the ear where the drawing is clearly visible and is painted over the color (on top of the color) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the painting in display at Paris, Peintres de portraits, Galerie Bernheim Jeune, 1952 - nº 42 as Madame Tsechowska | ||||||||||||||||
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