NUDE WITH CORAL NECKLACE -   BY AMEDEO MODIGLIANI
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
Nº 259 Nº 213 Nº 187 YES 30/1917 Nº 190 ? ?
Date 1917
Title Seated nude with coral necklace- Nu assis au collier- Nude with coral necklace - Seated Nude with necklace
Materials Oil on canvas
Size 91.5 x 59.7 cm
Signature: Signed "modigliani" top right in white
Actual Location Private Collection
Provenance -?-

Léopold Zborowski, Paris
Jacques Netter, Paris (1928)
Etienne Bignou, Paris
A.J. McNeill Reid Collection, London
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London (1929 -1933 ?)
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Sale: Hotel Drouot, Paris - 20 June 1935 - Collection de "L’Art Moderne - Luzern (Switzerland) - Lot 43
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Mrs. S. Kaye, London
Alex Reid & Lefevre Ltd., London (1949?)
Ralph F. Colin (Acquired from the above on June 10, 1949)

Sale: Christie's, New York - Import Modern Works O Art from Coll of Mr & Mrs Ralph Colin, Sale 8154 - 10/11 May 1995 - Lot 24
Estimated: 7.000.000 - 10.000.000 USD - Sold: 12.432.500 USD

Private Collection (Lewis Collection?)

In Process

Bibliography -?-

Salmon, Modigliani, sa vie et son oeuvre,Ed. des Quatres Chemins, Paris, 1926, pl. 20
Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 41
Magazine, Les Beaux-Arts, June 15, 1930
Basler, Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, Kunst und Künstler, Modigliani, Print. Bruno Cassirer, Berlin, 1929-1930, p. 356
Neugass, "Amedeo Modigliani", Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, Jan., 1931, p. 239
Exhib. catalogue, Darmstadt, 1931, p. 239
Sach, "Modigliani the Fated", Creative Art, Feb., 1932, p. 98
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. 10
Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana nº 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milan, 1942, pl. 10
Magazine, Time, Aug. 27, 1951, p. 79
Jedlicka, Modigliani, E. Rentsch, Zürich, 1953, pl. 29
Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 259 (dated in 1918)
Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - nº 121
"Modern Art: The Distinctive Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Colin", The Connoisseur, May, 1960, p. 209
"Today's Collectors: Colin and Spingold", Art News, April, 1960, p. 32
Neugass, "Privat Sammlungen in U.S.A.", Weltkunst, June, 1960, p. 13
Werner, "Nudest of Nudes." Arts Magazine 41- nº 1, November 1966, p. 125
Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, Cercle d'art, Paris,1968, p. 124
Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 213
Ceroni & Cachin, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Modigliani, Paris, 1972 - nº 187 (dated 1917)
Musée de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Modigliani exib. cat., 1981, p. 131 - nº 48
Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, New York, 1985, pp- 96-97
Angela Ceroni, Les nus, Biblioteque des Arts, Paris, 1989,  p. 63
Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel, Munich, 1990, p. 51
Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 - nº 30/1917
Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 190 (dated 1917)
Magazine, Christie's international magazine, May/June, 1995 - cover
Krystof, Amedeo Modigliani: The Poetry of Seeing, Taschen, Cologne,1996, 2000, p. 61
Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007

In process

Exhibitions -?-

Paris, Modigliani , Berthe Weill Gallery, 1917 (?)
London, Paintings by Amedeo Modigliani, Reid & Lefevre Galleries, 1929 - nº 14
New York, Paintings by Amedeo Modigliani 1884-1920, De Hauke & Co. Inc., 1929 - nº 29
Chicago, Paintings by Amedeo Modigliani, Arts Club of Chicago, 1929
Brussels, Trente ans de Peinture Française, Galerie le Centaure,  1930 - nº 37
Glasgow, XIXth and XXth Century French Painting, 1930 - nº 23 
New York, Amedeo Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Demotte, Inc., 1931 - nº 8
London, Masterpieces by XXth century French Painters, L'Ecole de Paris, Lefevre Gallery, 1932 - nº . 21
Brussels, Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition. Palais des beaux-arts, 1933 - nº 38
Basel, Amedeo Modigliani, Kunsthalle, 1934 - nº 30
London,  Amedeo Modigliani, Arthur Tooth & Sons, 1938
London, The Tragic Painters, The Lefevre Gallery, 1938 - nº 7 (as property of Netter)
Montreal, Delacroix to Dufy, W. Scott & Son, Oct., 1938 - nº 21
New York, Summer Loan Show,The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1950
New York, Selections from Five New York Private Collections, The Museum of Modern Art, 1951
New York, The Colin Collection, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., 1960 - nº 55
Boston. Modigliani: Paintings and Drawings. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, 1961 - nº 22
Los Angeles. Modigliani: Paintings and Drawings. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum, 1961
New York, Summer Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, 1962 - nº 48 
New York,  Amedeo Modigliani, Perls Galleries, 1963 - nº 15
New York, The Nudes of Modigliani, Perls Galleries,1966 - nº 6
Paris, Modigliani, Musée de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981 - nº 48
Sydney, Nude encounters, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2017

In process

Other Nº 38 in D' Atri papers dated 1917, size 60 x 92, titled Nu au collier ( un oeil clos)- Zborowski > Fénéon

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Detail of signature in visible normal light:
signature under visible light

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

DETAIL OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE EARS OF LEON BAKST BY AMEDEO MODIGLIANI

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The same sitter can be recognized in other paintings by Modigliani, with an undoubted match in the Guggenheim & private collection paintings:

similar or the same model


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The painting framed at "nude encounters" exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales in2017:






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