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Date | 1918 ? | ||||||||||||||||
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Title | The two girls - Les deux filles - the two sisters - the sisters | ||||||||||||||||
Materials | Oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||
Size | 100 x 65.1 cm (Christie’s 2009 - 100.2 x 65.1) | ||||||||||||||||
Signature: | Unsigned (probably unfinished) | ||||||||||||||||
Actual Location | Private Collection ? | ||||||||||||||||
Provenance | -?- ? Leopold Zborowski, Paris Netter Collection, Paris (before 1926 to 2009) Sale: Christie’s, London, 4 February 2009, Lot 10 / Sale 7701 Estimate: 4.987.500 - 7.837.500 USD - Sold: 9.400.566 USD Private Collection, Europe Sale: Christie’s, London, 4 February 2015, Lot 15 / Sale 10378 Estimate: 9.500.000 - 13.000.000 USD Sold: 11.493.548 USD Private Collection? (Nahmad Collection? not confirmed) In process |
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Bibliography | -?- ? Salmon, Modigliani, sa vie et son oeuvre, Ed. des Quatres Chemins, Paris, 1926, pl. 13 - dated 1917 Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 20 - dated 1917 Taguchi, Modigliani, Alier-Sha Tokyo, 1936, pl. 14 Franchi, Modigliani, Arnaud, Firenze, 1944, pl. 10 Apra, Tormento di Modigliani, Bietti, Milano 1945 Franchi, Modigliani, Arnaud, Firenze, 1946, pl. 17 - dated 1917 San Lazzaro, Modigliani peintures, Les Éditions du Chêne, Paris, 1947, pl. 6 Cocteau, Modigliani, Hazan, Paris, 1950, pl. 7 - titled the two sisters San Lazzaro, Modigliani peintures, Les Éditions du Chêne, Paris, 1953, pl. 6 Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 130 as the two girls dated 1917 - 100 x 65 - Netter Collection Borchert, Modigliani, Faber and Faber, London, 1960, pl. 5 Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani : dessins et sculptures ; avec suite du catalogue illustre des peintures, Edizioni del Milione, Milano, 1965 - nº 212 - dated 1918 Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 292 Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 242 - dated 1918 Ceroni & Cachin, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Modigliani, Paris, 1972 - nº 242 Roy, Modigliani, Nathan, Paris, 1985, p. 109 Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel, Munich, 1990, p. 118 - nº 67 Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 254 Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 - nº 21/1918 Monti a cura de R. Chiappini, Catalogue Amedeo Modigliani, Lugano, Skira, 1999 - nº 51, pp. 120 - 198 Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007 In process |
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Exhibitions | -?- ? Zurich, Amedeo Modigliani, Kunsthaus Zurich, 1930 (Curated by Arthut Pfannstiel) - nº 138 Brussels, Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition. Palais des beaux-arts, 1933 - nº 28 Basel, Amedeo Modigliani, Kunsthalle, 1934 - nº 20 Paris, Modigliani Peintures, Galerie de France, 1945-46 - nº 7 (dated 1917) Paris, Cent Tableaux de Modigliani, Galerie Charpentier, 1958 - nº 56 (dated 1917 as the two young girls) Marseille, Modigliani, Musée Cantini, 1958 - nº 15 Düsseldorf, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 1991 - nº 67 Zurich, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Kunsthaus, 1991 - nº 67 Chiba, Modigliani et son époque, Paris 1910-1920, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, 1997 - nº 3 Osaka, Modigliani et son époque, Paris 1910-1920, Kintetsu Museum of Art, 1997 - nº 3 Yamagata, Modigliani et son époque, Paris 1910-1920, Museum of Art, 1997 - nº 3 Niigata,Modigliani et son époque, Paris 1910-1920, Museum of Art, 1997 - nº 3 Miyazaki, Modigliani et son époque, Paris 1910-1920, Museum of Art, November, 1997 - nº 3 Kitakyushu, Modigliani et son époque, Paris 1910-1920, Municipal Museum, 1997- 1998 and - nº 3 Tokyo, Modigliani et son époque, Paris 1910-1920, Daimaru Museum of Art, 1998 - nº 3 Lugano, Amedeo Modigliani, Museo d'Arte Moderna, 1999 - nº 51 In process |
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Other | Nº 28 in D' Atri papers, as les deux soeurs (les deux filles - unsigned - 1917 - 100 x 65 - Netter Collection. repeated as Nº 206 title les deux soeurs with no more data. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The lack of signature maybe because it was not considered as unfinished by the artist? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Detail of the ears where the drawing is clearly visible and is painted over the color (on top of the color) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The same sitter can be seen in another painting: |
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