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Date | 1917 | ||||||||||||||||
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Title | Young woman - Totote de la Gaîtè - Les yeux tristes - the sad eyes | ||||||||||||||||
Materials | Oil on canvas ? | ||||||||||||||||
Size | 73 x 54 cm | ||||||||||||||||
Signature: | Signed "Modigliani." top right | ||||||||||||||||
Actual Location | Private Collection ? | ||||||||||||||||
Provenance | -?- Léopold Zbrorowski, Paris Paul Guillaume, Paris Galerie Bing, Paris (1925) Dr Charpentier, Paris (acquired by 1929) Sale: Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 30th March 1954 - Lot 91 ? Private Collection, Paris (acquired by 1965) Halphen Collection, France Sale: Sotheby's, London, 30th June 1982 - Lot 34 Private Collection, Germany (acquired above) Sale: Sothebys- London. Impressionist & Modern Art, Evening Sale - 19 Jun 2007 Sale L07007 - Lot 17 Estimate: 3.500.000 - 4.500.000 GBP - Sold: 4.164.000 GBP 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. 25 (wrong size, titled the sad eyes) Franchi, Modigliani, Arnaud, Firenze, 1944, pl. 12 Franchi, Modigliani, Arnaud, Firenze, 1946 - nº 22 Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, H.N. Abrams, New York, 1954, pl. 42-43 Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 150 (wrong size, titled the sad eyes) Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani : dessins et sculptures ; avec suite du catalogue illustre des peintures, Edizioni del Milione, Milano, 1965 - nº 202 Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 210 Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 217 Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 216 Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 - nº 21/1917 In process |
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Exhibitions | -?- Paris, Modigliani, Galerie Bing et Cie, 1925 (unknown number) ? Tokyo ,Love and Nostalgia for Montparnasse, Daimaru, 1979 - nº 14 Osaka,Love and Nostalgia for Montparnasse , Daimaru, 1979 Paris, Modigliani, Musée de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981 - nº 55 In process |
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Other | Not in D'Atri papers? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Detail of signature in visible normal light & in negative to see it more clear: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The eyes are the classical Modigliani style from the period: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I have no image of the infrared or X ray, but with a simple visual look, a painting under the actual image is visible, the area near the neck on the right side presents the typical scratching done to repaint over it, the red of the previous painting is clearly visible: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The painting visible at the Paris, Bing Galerie exhibition in 1925: |
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