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Date | 1917 | ||||||||||||||||
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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 |
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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 |
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Exhibitions | -?- Paris, Modigliani , Berthe Weill Gallery, 1917 (?) Paris, Modigliani, Galerie Bing et Cie, 1925 (unknown number) Barnes Collection In process |
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Other | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This painting presents holes in the 4 corners ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Detail of signature in visible normal light: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The painting at Galerie Bing Paris in 1925: The painting framed at the actual location at the Barnes collection in 2018: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Detail of the ear where the drawing is visible and is painted over the color (on top of the color) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The same sitter can be recognized in other paintings by Modigliani, with an undoubted match: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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