NUDE BY AMEDEO MODIGLIANI
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
Nº 332 Nº 390 Nº 203 YES 45/1917 Nº 207 ? ?
Date 1917
Title Reclining Nude from the Back - Nu couché de dos - Reclining Nude- Nude on back - Nude
Materials Oil on canvas
Size 64.8 x 99.7 cm (Patani: 65 x 100)
Signature: Signed "modigliani" top right
Actual Location Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA (Inv. nº BF576)
Provenance -?-

Léopold Zborowski, Paris
Barbazanges, Paris (1929)
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Alfred Barnes Collection, Philadelphia

Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA (Inv. nº BF576)

In Process

Bibliography -?-

Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 52
Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana nº 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milano, 1936-XIV , pl. 32
Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana nº 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milan, 1942, pl. 32
Apra, Tormento di Modigliani, Bietti, Milano 1945, p. 80
Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana nº 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milan, 1950, pl. 34
Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, H.N. Abrams, New York, 1953, pl. 61
Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 332 (dated 1919- size 100 x 65 cm)
Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - nº 126
Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 390
Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 203
Ceroni & Cachin, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Modigliani, Paris, 1972 - nº 203
Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 - nº 45/1917 (dated 1917 - size 65 x 100 cm)
Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 207 (dated 1917 - size 65 x 100 cm)
Wattenmaker / Distel. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation: Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Early Modern. New York: Alfred A. Knopf , 1993, pp. 218, 219
Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004-2005, pp, 55, 73
Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007
Dolkart / Lucy / Gillman, The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks, Skira Rizzoli, 2012, pp. 336, 337


In process

Exhibitions -?-

Paris, Modigliani , Berthe Weill Gallery, 1917 (?)
Paris, Modigliani, Galerie Bing et Cie, 1925 (unknown number)
Barnes Collection



In process

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Nº 251in D' Atri papers as "Nu couché sur le divan - 65 x 100 cm dated in 1919 > provenance in Zborowski > Barbazanges (acquired to Zborowski in 1929)

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This painting presents holes in the 4 corners

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


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The painting at Galerie Bing Paris in 1925:
The painting framed in Galerie Bing Paris in 1925

The painting framed at the actual location at the Barnes collection in 2018:
The painting framed at the actual location at the Barnes collection in 2018



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The eyes of this painting reflect a style Modigliani used from the end of 1915 to the first months of 1918, very similar eye construction can be
seen in many Modigliani works from this period:

eyes

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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:

similar or the same model
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