Reclining Nude (Private Collection)
Oil on canvas, 1919?
Identification
- Published titles
- English: Reclining Nude (Private Collection); Reclining Nude; Lying Nude with Right Arm under the Head; Lying Blond Nude; Sleeping Nude; Jeanne Hébuterne Nude.
- Date
- Ceroni dates the work 1919. Pfannstiel 1956 dated it 1920. This investigation marks the year as unconfirmed.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas.
- Dimensions
- Usually given as 116 × 73 cm. Galerie Charpentier, 1958, no. 100, recorded 115 × 73 cm.
- Signature
- Signed modigliani at top right.
- Present location
- Private collection.
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 353 |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 381 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 324 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | ? |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 336 |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | YES |
| Modigliani Initiative | ? |
Legal note on MR: This investigation has not had access to MR’s catalogue raisonné; all research here is based on open sources, publications and exhibitions. By no means has that catalogue been copied at any point. Modigliani Project and Modigliani Initiative are marked YES when the work is published or otherwise recorded by those projects, even if no catalogue number is assigned; otherwise the field is marked ?.
Provenance
- Not documented before the Brooks Collection, Paris.
- Netter Collection, Paris (in 1929).
- Galerie Flechtheim (recorded in 1930).
- Possibly Spinner Collection.
- Private collection, Zurich (recorded 1955–1958).
- Private collection.
The sequence follows the published museum, sale, and catalogue record in this investigation. Gaps and uncertain transfers are marked as such.
Selected bibliography
Book-length publications are marked with a footnote giving a full citation. Exhibition catalogues appear in both this list and the exhibition list when this investigation recorded them in both places.
- André Salmon, 1926, pl. 38.
- Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929, pp. 54–55; 1956, no. 353, dated 1920, 116 × 73 cm.
- Die Kunst für Alle 45 (1929–30), Munich, p. 373.
- Maurice Raynal, Geneva, Skira, 1951, p. 36.
- Ambrogio Ceroni, Rizzoli 1970 and French 1972, no. 324, dated 1919.
- Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 381, as Sleeping Nude (Jeanne Hébuterne?).
- Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 336.
- Werner Schmalenbach, Munich, Prestel, 1990, p. 142, no. 90.
- MR, Luxembourg 2002, no. 100, pp. 382–384.
- Simonetta Fraquelli, Royal Academy, 2006, pp. 126–127.
Exhibitions
- Venice, Biennale, 1930, no. 13 (Lionello Venturi).
- Bern, Kunsthalle, 1955, no. 26.
- Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 1958, no. 100.
- Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 88.
- Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, and Zurich, Kunsthaus, 1991, no. 87.
- Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 100; Milan, Palazzo Reale, 2003, no. 69.
- London, Royal Academy of Arts, 2006, no. 40.
- Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2013, no. 24.
Notes
D’Atri papers no. 250, signed top right, 73 × 116 cm, dated 1919, provenance Brooks 1929 → Netter 1929.
This investigation groups this canvas with two other versions of the same composition.
The original page of this investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where the sources disagree, both readings are given.
