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Date | 1917 ? | ||||||||||||||||
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Title | Louise - La petite Louise - Bust of girl with sailor collar | ||||||||||||||||
Materials | Oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||
Size | 55 x 43.8 cm (Patani, Ceroni: 55 x 46) | ||||||||||||||||
Signature: | Signed "modigliani" top right | ||||||||||||||||
Actual Location | Private Collection ? | ||||||||||||||||
Provenance | -?- Léopold Zborowski, Paris Galerie Paul & Gilbert Pétridès, Paris Duveen Collection, London (by 1955) André Lefevre, Paris Sale: Palais Galliera, Collection Lefevre, Paris 25.11.1965 - Lot 68 Private Collection, Switzerland Sale: Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg, New York, May 7, 2001, Lot 33 Sold: 4.072.500 USD Private Collection ? Sale: Sotheby's - Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale - Sale N08485 - 03/November/2008 - Lot 35 Estimate: 7.000.000 - 10.000.000 USD - Result: Bought in In Process |
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Bibliography | -?- Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 294 (dated 1918) Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 208 (dated 1917) Ceroni & Cachin, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Modigliani, Paris, 1972 - nº 208 Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 214 (dated 1917 with incorrect provenance) Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007 In process |
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Exhibitions | -?- Bern, Kunstmuseum, 1955 - nº 31 Paris, Collection André Lefèvre, Musée National d'Art Moderne, 1964 - nº 204 Martigny, Modigliani, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1990 - nº 66 In process |
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Other | Probably nº 154 in D'Atri papers as Portrait de jeune Fille - 55 x 44 signed right dated 1918 - Nice with no provenance or nº 79 as Tete de Femme 61 x 38 signed top right dated 1917-1918, provenance Zborowski > Bernheim Paris 1929 > Ernest Duveen, London 1933 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Detail of signature in visible normal light: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ears where the drawing with colors and black detail is visible and is painted over the color (on top of the color) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The painting was restored for auction in 2008, a dark oxidated varnish layer was retired: |
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