LEON BAKST BY AMEDEO MODIGLIANI
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
Nº 41 Nº 197 Nº 165 YES 26 / 1917 Nº 168 ? ?
Date 1917
Title Woman with earrings - woman bust - unknown woman
Materials Oil on canvas
Size 55,3 x 33 cm
Signature: Signed "modigliani" top right
Actual Location National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA - Inv. Nº 1963.10.173
Provenance -?-
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Léon Bakst, Paris
Frederick Manaud, Paris
Gallerie Bing, Paris (sold 13 April 1928 to Chester Dale)
Chester Dale Collection, New York

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA - Inv. Nº 1963.10.173
Bequest to National Gallery of Art in 1963


In process

Bibliography -?-
Levinson, Historie de Léon Bakst, Paris, Henri Reynaud, 1924, pl. 1
Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana nº 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milano, 1927, pl. 8
Scheiwiller, Editions des Chroniques du jour, Paris, 1928 , pl. 6
Dale, Modigliani, Knopf, New York, 1929 - nº 39 (dated in 1918)
Dale, Before Manet to Modigliani from the Chester Dale Collection, New York, 1929 - nº 102
Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 13
Basler, Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, Kunst und Künstler, Modigliani, Print. Bruno Cassirer, Berlin, 1929-1930, p. 360
Read, "The Chester Dale Collection", Vogue 25, 15 February 1930, p. 81
Slocombe, Rebels of Art, Manet to Matisse. New York, 1939, pl. 26
Franchi, Modigliani, Arnaud, Firenze, 1946, pl. 7
Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, H.N. Abrams, New York, 1954, pl. 59
Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 41 (dated in 1915)
Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - nº 91
National Gallery of Art, Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture, Washington, 1965, p. 91
National Gallery of Art, Twentieth Century French Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection, Washington, 1965, nº 54
Werner, Amedeo Modigliani , H. Abrams, New York 1966 - nº 18, p. 21
National Gallery of Art, European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations, Washington, 1968, pl. 80
Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 197
Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 165 (dated in 1917)
National Gallery of Art,European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue, Washington, 1975, nº 236
Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1984 - nº 906
National Gallery of Art, European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue, Washington, 1985, nº 274
Roy, Modigliani, Nathan, Paris, 1985, p. 86
Castieau-Barrielle, Modigliani, ACR Editions, Paris, 1987, p. 171
Orion Press, Tokyo, 1989 - nº 22
Parisot, Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1988, p. 150
Buisson, La scuola di Parigi e Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1989, p. 117
Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 - nº 26/1917
Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 168 ( dated in 1917)
Kopper, America's National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation. New York, 1991, pl. 245
Parisot, Modigliani, Pierre Terrail, Paris, 1992, p.106
Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007

In process

Exhibitions -?-

New York, 100 Years of French Portraits from the Chester Dale Collection, Museum of French Art, 1928 - nº 19
New York, Loan Exhibition of Modern French Art from the Chester Dale Collection for the Benefit of the French Hospital of New York, Wildenstein Galleries, 1928 - nº 27
New York, Amedeo Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Demotte, Inc., 1931 - nº 23
Brussels, Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition. Palais des beaux-arts, 1933 - nº 9 (dated in 1915)
Basel, Amedeo Modigliani, Kunsthalle, 1934 - nº 2
Chicago, Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, 1943-1952, p. 39
Washington, Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, 1952 - nº 41
Washington, The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, 1965
Washington, Modigliani: An Anniversary Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, 1983

In process

Other Nº 9 in D' Atri papers dated 1915 and corrected to 1918?

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The painting framed at the National Gallery of Art Washington in 2018:

LEON BAKST FRAMED

The paintinglocation at the National Gallery of Art Washington in 2015:

LEON BAKST IN LOCATION AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART WASHINGTON

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This work presents holes in the 4 corners, one of them covered by restoration.

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Detail of signature:
LEON BAKST SIGNATURE DETAIL

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Detail of the ears where the drawing is clearly 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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Image of the painting at the Chester Dale apartment in New York:


LEON BAKST IN THE NEW YORK APARTMENT OF CHESTER DALE

There is a copy in cardboard of the same subject (signed and dated in 1916) that was once at the Chrysler Collection:
Leon Bakst - Chrysler Collection?



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