Landscape of the Midi  by Amedeo Modigliani
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
Nº 247 NO? Nº 293 NO? YES Nº 304 YES YES
Date 1919 (Restellini say January 1919)
Title Paysage du Midi - Landscape of the Midi - The italian village
Materials oil on canvas?
Size 61 x 46.5 cm? (Ceroni, Restellini 60 x 45)
Signature: Signed twice "modigliani" bottom left in black and "modigliani" bottom right in white
Actual Location Private Collection?
Provenance -?-
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Leopold Zborowski, Paris
Netter Collection, Paris (acquired from above 1929)
Libaude Collection, Paris (acquired from above 1931)
Private Collection, Switzerland
Carstairs Gallery, New York
Dewey Jr. Collection, New York (by 1955 to 1989?)

Sale Sotheby's New York - 9 / May / 1989 - Lot 45
Sold: 1.700.000 USD
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Karsten Greve Gallery, Cologne/Paris (1996)
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Acquavella Galleries, New York (1999)
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Steve Wynn art Collection , Las Vegas

Bellagio Hotel Collection, Las Vegas
Lent by Wynn

Sale Sotheby's New York, Sale 7545 - 9 / November / 2000 - Lot 35
Estimate: 1.500.000 - 2.000.000 - Sold: 1.655.750 USD
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Schecter Collection? (in 2005 and 2008)

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In process

Bibliography

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Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 247 - titled Landscape of the Midi - dated 1918 - no size
Note: Pfannstiel includes the New York, Modigliani - Soutine Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, 1951 in the list and the work was not in that exhibition, he even gives the page 48 as illustrated in
Ithat page there is drawing of Mario Varvoglis - ???

Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 293 - titled Landscape of the Midi - dated 1919 - wrong size 60 x 45
Ceroni & Cachin, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Modigliani, Paris, 1972 - nº 293 - titled Landscape of the Midi - dated 1919 - wrong size 60 x 45
Mann, Modigliani, Thames and Hudson, London, 1980, p. 183
Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l'oeuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Editions ACR, Paris, 1987, p. 192
Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel, Munich, 1990, p. 141 - nº 89
Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 304- titled Landscape of the Midi - dated 1919
Monti a cura de R. Chiappini, Catalogue Amedeo Modigliani, Lugano, Skira, 1999, p. 130 - nº 63
Note: in the Catalogue of paintings for this exhibition, Decrooq usual collaborator of Restellini gives also wrong size 60 x 45 cm
Text is except for 2 phrases the same as in L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002.
also includes the New York, Modigliani - Soutine Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, 1951 in the list and the work was not in that exhibition, following blindly the Pfannstiel mistake.

Krystof, Amedeo Modigliani: The Poetry of Seeing, Taschen, Cologne,1996, p. 84
Parisot, Amedeo Modigliani, 1884-1920 : itinéraire anecdotique entre France et Italie, ACR edition, 1996, p. 174
Da Rosa, Modigliani, Giunti G. E, Firenze, 1996, p. 16
Krystof, Amedeo Modigliani: The Poetry of Seeing, Taschen, Cologne,2000, p. 84
Decrooq-Restellini, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, pp. 342-343 - nº 82 - titled Landscape of the Midi - dated in January 1919 - wrong size 60 x 45
Wayne, Modigliani & the Artists of Montparnasse, Abrams-Albright-knox gallery, New York, 2002, p. 181 - fig. 12 (dated 1918-1919)
Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007
Restellini, Le silence éternel, Pinacotheque de Paris, 2008, p 139 - titled Landscape of the Midi - wrong size 60 x 45
Marini, Modigliani , Skira, France, 2008, p. 81 - nº 47 - titled Landscape Southern France - dated 1919

In process

Exhibitions -?-
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Cincinnati, Amedeo Modigliani: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, The Contemporary Arts Center, 1959 - nº 22 - dated 1918
New York, Amedeo Modigliani; loan exhibition, Acquavella Galleries, 1971 - nº 45 (dated 1919)
Düsseldorf, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 1991 - nº 80
Zurich, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Kunsthaus, 1991 - nº 80
Tokyo, Exposition Amedeo Modigliani au Japon, Tobu Museum of Art, 1992-93 - Curated by Marc Restellini - nº 41
Kyoto, Exposition Amedeo Modigliani au Japon, Daimaru Museum, 1992-93 - Curated by Marc Restellini - nº 41
Osaka, Exposition Amedeo Modigliani au Japon, Daimaru Museum of Umeda, 1992-93 - Curated by Marc Restellini - nº 41
Ibaraki, Exposition Amedeo Modigliani au Japon, Museum of Modern Art, 1992-93 - Curated by Marc Restellini - nº 41
Lausanne, Modigliani, Utrillo, Soutine, Les peintres de Zborowski et leurs amis, Fondation de L'Hérmitage, 1994 - nº 21
Lugano, Amedeo Modigliani, Museo d'Arte Moderna, 1999 - nº 63
Paris, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002 (curated by Marc Restellini) - nº 82
Milano, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Palazzo Reale, 2003 (curated by Marc Restellini) - nº 58


In process

Other
Nº 184 in D'Atri papers, as The italian village ( Paysage du midi) size 61 x 45.5- 1918 - Cagnes - provenance: Zborowski > Netter 1929 > Libaude 1931

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This Painting is an absolute rare example, it presents two signatures both in lower side:

Bottom left in black:
signature in bottom left in black

Bottom right in white:


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Sketch drawing:
sketch


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