Madame Amédée  by amedeo modigliani
Image Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art Washington D.C.
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
Nº 248 Nº 408 Nº 282 YES ? Nº 295 ? ?
Date 1918
Title Madame Amédée - woman with a cigarette - Smoking woman - The smoker
Materials Oil on canvas
Size 100.3 x 64.8 cm
Signature: Signed "modigliani" top left
Actual Location National Gallery of Art, washingron, D.C. USA ( Inv. Nº 963.10.172)
Provenance -?-
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Kunding Collection, Geneva
Falk Collection, Geneva
Georges Moos, Geneva
Etienne Bignou, Paris (acquired above 1925)
Chester Dale, New York (acquired to above in 3/May/1927)

National Gallery of Art, washingron, D.C. USA ( Inv. Nº 963.10.172)
Chester Dale bequest 1963

Bibliography -?-
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Dale, Modigliani, Knopf, New York, 1929
Dale, Before Manet to Modigliani from the Chester Dale Collection, New York, 1929
Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 39
Read, "The Chester Dale Collection." Vogue 25 - 15 February 1930, pl. 81
Neugass, "Amedeo Modigliani", Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, Jan., 1931, p. 297
Art Institute of Chicago, Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. The Art Institute of Chicago, 1943
Franchi, Modigliani, Arnaud, Firenze, 1947, pl. 36
National Gallery of Art, Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1952 / 1960 /1965, p. 45
Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 248 - title Woman with a cigarette - dated Nice 1918
National Gallery of Art, Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965
National Gallery of Art, Twentieth Century French Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965
Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, Garzanti, Milano 1967 - nº 50
National Gallery of Art, European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968
Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, Cercle d'art, Paris,1968
Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, New York, 1968
Ponente, Modigliani, Ed. Toray, Barcelona, 1969 - nº 66
Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 408 - titleMme. Amédée (la femme à la cigarette) - dated 1919
Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 282 - title Mme. Amédée- dated 1918
Ceroni & Cachin, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Modigliani, Paris, 1972 - nº 282
National Gallery of Art, European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984 - nº 901
National Gallery of Art, European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985
Kopper, America's National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation. New York, 1991
Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991
Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 295 - title Woman seated with a cigarette in the right hand (Madame Amédée) - dated 1918
Parisot, Amedeo Modigliani, 1884-1920 : itinéraire anecdotique entre France et Italie, ACR edition, 1996, p. 164 - title Woman seated with a cigarette (Madame Amédée) - dated 1918
Southgate, The Art of JAMA: One Hundred Covers and Essays from The Journal of the American Medical Association. St. Louis, 1997
Hand, National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004
Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007
Secrest, Meryle. Modigliani: A Life. New York, 2011
Kennicott, "French Rooms Reopen, With Different Accents." Washington Post135, no. 55 - January 29, 2012

In process

Exhibitions -?-
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Chicago, Paintings by Amedeo Modigliani, Arts Club of Chicago, 1929 - nº 1
New York, Amedeo Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Demotte, Inc., 1931 - nº 21
Brussels, Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition. Palais des beaux-arts, 1933 - nº 46
Basel, Amedeo Modigliani, Kunsthalle, 1934 - nº 38
Chicago, Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, 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 45
Washington,The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art , 1965
Washington, D.C., Modigliani: An Anniversary Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, 1983

In process

Other
Nº 46 in D' Atri papers -as Femme a la sigarette - dated 1918 Nice - 100 x 64 / 99 x 64 x 50 - Provenance in Falk > Bignou > Kunding > Chester Dale

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Detail of signature in visible normal light:

signature


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The painting framed at NGA in 2017:

Mme. Amédée by Amedeo Modigliani framed at the NGA


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The painting framed in location at the Chester Dale home in New York, Ca. 1940

The painting framed in location at the Chester Dale home in New York, Ca. 1940



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