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Date | 1918 ? (NGA dates in 1919 - probably near 1916-17) | ||||||||||||||||
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Title | Gypsy woman with baby - La bohemienne - Maternite - Mother and child - The italian | ||||||||||||||||
Materials | Oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||
Size | 115.9 x 73 cm | ||||||||||||||||
Signature: | Signed "modigliani" top right | ||||||||||||||||
Actual Location | National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA (Inv. Nº 1963.10.174) | ||||||||||||||||
Provenance | -?- ? E. Bernheim Collection, Paris Bernheim Jeune, Paris ( acquired from above 5 / October /1921 - Inv. Nº 22851) Paul Guillaume, Paris (acquired from above 27 / May /1924 - 9.736 FF) Chester Dale Collection, New York (acquired from above in 1928) National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA (Inv. Nº 1963.10.174) Chester Dale bequest to NGA in 1963 In process |
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Bibliography | -?- ? Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana nº 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milano, 1927, pl. 15 Scheiwiller, Editions des Chroniques du jour, Paris, 1928 , pl. 13 Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 54 Dale, Modigliani, Knopf, New York, 1929, pl. 1 Dale, Before Manet to Modigliani from the Chester Dale Collection, New York, 1929- nº 95 Read, "The Chester Dale Collection." Vogue 25 - 15 February 1930, pl. 81 Basler, Modigliani. Editions G. Cres, Paris, 1931, pl. 26 Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana nº 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milano, 1936-XIV , pl. 8 Taguchi, Modigliani, Alier-Sha Tokyo, 1936, pl. 6 Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana nº 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milan, 1942, pl. 8 Exhib. cat., Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1943, pl 42 Apra, Tormento di Modigliani, Bietti, Milano 1945 , p. 48 Franchi, Modigliani, Arnaud, Firenze, 1946, pl. 15 Venturi, Pittura Contemporanea, Milan 1948, pl. 148 Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana nº 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milan, 1950, pl. 31 Raynal, Modigliani, Skira, Genève 1951 , pl. 8 Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, H.N. Abrams, New York, 1952, p. 5 National Gallery of Art, Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1952 (2nd ed., 1960; rev. ed., 1965) Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, H.N. Abrams, New York, 1953, p. 5 Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, H.N. Abrams, New York, 1954, pl. 47 T. Soby, Modigliani, Museum of Modern art, New York, catalogue exp. 1954, p. 52 Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 341 - dated 1919 Modigliani J. , Modigliani: Man and Myth, Orion Press, New York, 1958 Modigliani J. , Modigliani senza leggenda, Vallecchi Editore, Firenze, 1958 Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - nº 135 Roy , Modigliani, Skira, Lausanne, 1958, p. 92 Cott, Stelzer, The National Gallery of Art and Its Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington (undated, 1960s) Exhib. cat., Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1960 Modigliani J. , Modigliani sans légende, Gruend, Paris, 1961 - nº 60 Cairns, Huntington, Walker, Treasures from the National Gallery of Art, New York, 1962, p. 178 Russoli, Amedeo Modigliani, Fratelli Fabbri, Milano, 1963 - nº 12 National Gallery of Art, Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965, p. 91 National Gallery of Art, Twentieth Century French Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965, frontispiece, p. 64 Cairns, Huntington, Walker, A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966, p. 80 Werner, Amedeo Modigliani , H. Abrams, New York, 1966, p. 144 Gindertael, Shop libre diffusion, 1967, p. 56, pl. 30 Menisli d'Arte, Fratelli Fabri ed. Milano, 1967, pl. 30 Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, Garzanti, Milano, 1967, p. 144 National Gallery of Art, European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations, National Gallery of Art, 1968, p. 80 Geza, Modigliani, Budapest, Corvina Kiadó, 1969, - nº 27 Ponente, Modigliani, Ed. Toray, Barcelona, 1969 - nº 75 Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 243 - dated 1917 Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 238 - dated 1918 - nº 247 - dated 1918 Ceroni & Cachin, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Modigliani, Paris, 1972 - nº 238 - dated 1918 - nº 247 - dated 1918 Arno, 1972, p. 47 National Gallery of Art, European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975, p. 238 Hubbard, Modigliani and the painters of Montparnasse, Lamplight Publ. New York, 1975, pl. 30, p. 40 Watson, Ross, The National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1979, pl. 118 Zurcher, Modigliani, Ed. F. Hazan, Paris, 1980 - nº 58 Carluccio, Leymarie, Negri, Russoli, Brunhammer, École de Paris, Rive Gauche, Paris, 1981, p. 219 Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984 - nº 898 Roy, Modigliani, Nathan, Paris, 1985, p. 112 National Gallery of Art, European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue, National Gallery of Art, 1985, p. 274 Parisot, Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1988, p. 177 Orion Press, Tokyo, 1989 - nº 44 Parisot, Modigliani, il segno, Electa, Florence, 1990, p. 177 Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 - nº 20/1918 Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 259 - dated 1918 Kopper, America's National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation, New York, 1991, p. 245 Parisot, Modigliani, Pierre Terrail, Paris, 1992, p. 127 Southgate, The Art of JAMA: One Hundred Covers and Essays from The Journal of the American Medical Association. St. Louis, 1997 Krystof, Amedeo Modigliani: The Poetry of Seeing, Taschen, Cologne,1996, 2000, p. 90 Parisot, Amedeo Modigliani, 1884-1920 : itinéraire anecdotique entre France et Italie, ACR edition, 1996, p. 152 Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007 Secrest, Modigliani: A Life. New York, 2011 Kennicott, "French Rooms Reopen, With Different Accents." Washington Post 135, no. 55 (January 29, 2012) In process |
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Exhibitions | -?- ? Paris, Modigliani, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1922 - nº 26 titled La bohémienne (only reproduced painting) Venezia, Modigliani retrospective, XIII Biennale di Venezia, 1922 - nº 10 as Madre e figlio - La Zingara - Mother and child - the gypsy - (nº 163674) 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 28 Cambridge, Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Fogg Art Museum, 1929 - nº 64 New York, Loan Exhibition Held by New York University Gallery of Living Art:Contemporary Paintings, Brummer Gallery, 1929 - nº 38 Venezia, Mostra retrospettiva di Modigliani – Curated by Lionello Venturi - Biennale di Venezia , Sala XII degli Appels d'Italie, 1930 - nº 19 as Maternita New York, Amedeo Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Demotte, Inc., 1931 - nº 3 Chicago, A Century of Progress, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1933 - nº 703 Chicago, Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1943-1952 (extended loan) Cleveland, Modigliani - Soutine Exhibition, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951 New York, Modigliani - Soutine Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, 1951 Washington, Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, 1952 - nº 46 Washington, The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, 1965 Washington, Modigliani: An Anniversary Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, 1983-1984 Washington, From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, 2010-2012 In process |
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Other | Nº 79 in D' Atri papers - as tete de Femme - dated 1917-1918 - Duveen London 1933 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOte: Bernheim Jeune made 200 aquatints of this painting in 1927 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Detail of signature in visible normal light: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Detail of the ears where the drawing is clearly visible and is painted over the color (on top of the color) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The painting framed at NGA in 2017: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is a small portrait of face of the sitter: - |
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