Mme. Menier by amedeo modigliani
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
Nº 228 Nº 240 Nº 233 YES ? Nº 244 YES ?
Date 1917- 1918?
Title Woman with long green necklace - Madame Menier - Portrait of Blond woman
Materials Oil on canvas
Size 99.1 x 59.7 cm ? ( Pfannstiel, Lanthemann, Ceroni, Patani 92 x 54)
Signature: Signed "modigliani" top right
Actual Location Private Collection?
Provenance -?-
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Menier Collection, Paris ?
Feroldi, Collection, Brescia
Gualino Collection, Torino (by 1929-30)
Sale: Z. Pisa S.A.F., Milano 7/ February/1934 - lot 188
Cardazzo Collection, Venezia (in 1946 and in 1957)
?
Private Collection, Switzerland
?
Fujikawa Galleries, Osaka
?

In process

Bibliography -?-
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Venturi, Formes, Revue Internationale des Arts Plastiques - La Collection dÁrt Moderne de M. Gualino - nº 7 July 1930, p. 25, pl. 16
L'Arte, 1930, p. 35
Formes, 1930 - nº VII, p. 11
Speciale dedie alla XVII Biennale, 1930, p. 28
Emporium, 1938, p. 47
Exh. Cat. Associazione fra gli amatori e i cultori delle arti figurative contemporanee, Milano, 1946, pl. 9
Problemi, 1945, p. 11
Carrieri, 12 opere di Amedeo Modigliani, Ed. del Milione, Milano 1947 - nº - title Mme. Menier- dated 1917
Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana nº 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milan, 1950, pl. 10
Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 228 - title Mme. Menier- dated 1917
San Lazzaro, Modigliani-Portraits, Hazan, Paris, 1957, p. 14
Russoli, Amedeo Modigliani, Silvana Editoriale d'Arte, Milano, 1958
Ponente, Modigliani, Ed. Toray, Barcelona, 1969 - nº 36
Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 365 - title Portrait of blond woman, named Mme. Menier - dated 1917
Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 233 - title Woman with green necklace (Mme. Menier) - dated 1918
Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 244 - title Signora Menier - dated 1918
Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004-2005, p. 38, fig. 19 - dated in 1917
Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007

In process

Exhibitions -?-
?

Venezia, Mostra retrospettiva di Modigliani – Curated by Lionello Venturi - Biennale di Venezia , Sala XII degli Appels d'Italie, 1930 - nº 3
Venezia, Galleria del Cavalini, 1945
Exh. Cat. Associazione fra gli amatori e i cultori delle arti figurative contemporanee, Milano, 1946 - nº 9 (size 92 x 54 - dated 1917)
Roma, Modigliani, VI Quadriennale, 1951-1952
Roma, 1956
Milano, Mostra di Amedeo Modigliani, Palazzo Reale, Curated by Franco Russoli, 1958 - nº 27 - dated 1917
Roma, Modigliani, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, 1959 - nº 21


In process

Other
Not in D' Atri papers ?
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Detail of signature in visible normal light:

signature

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The painting in Venezia, Mostra retrospettiva di Modigliani – Curated by Lionello Venturi - Biennale di Venezia , Sala XII degli Appels d'Italie, 1930

The painting in Venezia, Mostra retrospettiva di Modigliani – Curated by Lionello Venturi - Biennale di Venezia , Sala XII degli Appels d'Italie, 1930

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Extract from Le Monde newspaper 27th May 2016

The Institut Restellini, undertaking a catalogue raisonné of the painter’s works, has given its verdict: the sitter in the painting is Georges Menier. This famous manufacturer,
the eldest of the fourth generation of well-known chocolate makers, mayor of Lognes (Seine-et-Marne) for thirty years and acknowledged composer, frequented the artistic elite in Paris.
Art historian Marc Restellini confirms that he found traces related to the painting in the Menier Archive in the Musée d’Orsay and according to the memories of the wife of Modigliani’s last dealer,
Anna Zborowska.
James Palmer, the famous investigator of looted artworks behind the legal proceedings, specifies “Philippe Maestracci confirmed to us that his grandfather Oscar Stettiner was friends with Georges Menier”.
A further point is that Modigliani painted a portrait of Simonne Menier, Georges’ wife, in 1919. It is therefore highly likely that the two paintings, of Georges, believed to date back to 1918, and of Simonne,
were painted around the same time.

Madame Menier

Woman with green necklace amedeo modigliani

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