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Date | 1917 | ||||||||||||||||
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Title | Elena - Elena Povolozky | ||||||||||||||||
Materials | Oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||
Size | 64.7 x 48.5 cm ? (Wayne 64.8 x 48.6) | ||||||||||||||||
Signature: | Signed"modigliani " bottom right in white and the text "ELENA" in black on top right (reverse not seen) | ||||||||||||||||
Actual Location | Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, USA (Inv. Nº 1396) | ||||||||||||||||
Provenance | -?- Elena Povolozky , Paris Laffaille Collection, Paris Pierre Matisse (until 1949) Phillips Collection, Washington, (Inv. Nº 1396) Acquired 1949 In process |
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Bibliography | -?- Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 30-31 Catalogue Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1951, p. 35 Phillips, 1952, p. 70 T. Soby, Modigliani, Museum of Modern art, New York, catalogue exp. 1954, p. 37 Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 189 Roy , Modigliani, Skira, Lausanne, 1958, p. 77 Salmon, Montparnasse-Montmartre, Munich, 1958, p. 161 Salmon, Modigliani a memoir, Putnam's Sons, New York, 1961 / 1957 Gérard & Co, Paris, p. 112 Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani : dessins et sculptures ; avec suite du catalogue illustre des peintures, Edizioni del Milione, Milano, 1965 - nº 168 Diehl, Modigliani, Ed. Flamarion, Paris, 1969, p. 68 Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 195 Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 168 Arno, New York, 1972, p. 35 Mann, Modigliani, Thames and Hudson, London, 1980, p. 168 Roy, Modigliani, Nathan, Paris, 1985, p. 95 Diehl, Modigliani, Crown Publishers, New York, 1989 , pp. 68-69 Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel, Munich, 1990, p. 104 - nº 54 Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991- nº 7/1917 Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 173 Parisot, Amedeo Modigliani, 1884-1920 : itinéraire anecdotique entre France et Italie, ACR edition, 1996, p. 129 Wayne, Modigliani & the Artists of Montparnasse, Abrams-Albright-knox gallery, New York, 2002, p. 95 - nº 18 Fraquelli, Modigliani, Fort Worth and Paris, in Burlington Magazine, 145, 2003, pp. 254-255 Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004-2005, back cover, p. 137, pl. 53 Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007 In process |
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Exhibitions | -?- Paris, Modigliani, Galerie de France, 1945-46 - nº 71 (with doubts, this is Parisot information and is not in my catalogue) North Carolina, 1951 ? Cleveland, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Cleveland Museum of Art,1951 New York, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, 1951 Palm Beach - Coral Gables, 1954 New York, Amedeo Modigliani; loan exhibition, Acquavella Galleries, Inc. 1971 - nº 19 New York, Modigliani,1972 Tokyo ,Love and Nostalgia for Montparnasse, Daimaru, 1979 Osaka,Love and Nostalgia for Montparnasse , Daimaru, 1979 - nº 2 Phillips Collection, 1981-82 - nº 48 Tokyo-Nara, 1983 - nº 71 ? Düsseldorf, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 1991 - nº 50 Zurich, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Kunsthaus, 1991 Detroit, Degas to Matisse : impressionist and modern masterworks, Detroit Institute of the Arts, 2000 Washington. D.C., Degas to Matisse : impressionist and modern masterworks, Phillips Collection, 2000-2001 Buffalo NY, Modigliani and the artists of Montparnasse, Albright-Knox Gallery, 2002-2003 - nº 18 Fort Worth, Modigliani and the artists of Montparnasse, Kimbell art Museum, 2003 - nº 18 New York, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004 Toronto, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Art Gallery of Ontario, 2004 - 2005 Washington D.C., Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Phillips Collection, 2005 Genova, Modigliani, Palazzo Duccale, 2017 In process |
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Other | in D' Atri papers as nº 303 - Col. Povolozky, Paris, 1929. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This painting present holes in the corners, all of them covered by restoration ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Image of the painting framed at the Modigliani and the artists of Montparnasse pre cleaning in 2002: Image of the painting framed at the Phillips Collection after cleaning: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Actual images of the painting reflect a very strong cleaning: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is another portrait of the same sitter at private collection: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Detail of the ears where the drawing is clearly visible and is painted over the color (on top of the color) | ||||||||||||||||
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