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SUPPORTS USED BY modigliani

MODIGLIANI PAINTINGS IN CARDBOARD

Cardboard use in Modigliani can be seen all over his production.
Some experts with a very simple perspective say that cardboard use in Modigliani ends in 1916 as much.
It has been widely repeated, then accepted as a fact , well that's not truth.
Yes during the first years in Paris, there is a lot of cardboard and later the production shrinks but that was just because he had canvas at hand,
but his lower works (sketches, small compositions or personal) were made with cardboard as support.

Just a simple look to Ceroni's catalogue (with mistakes corrected) shows that cardboard use was much more extended than they think.

The main problem that we find when trying to study the supports used by Modigliani, is the fear of annoying the "famous" experts or the terror of the museums
and collectors so that their pieces can be seen as "problematic" or out of "normal".
Accessing the back of the piece is an almost impossible task.

But the back of a painting can tell many things, old labels, stamps or inscriptions.
Or even the real support...

To give an example:

This painting named Alice is dated by each expert in the next years:
Alice amedeo modigliani

Pfannstiel: 1920
Ceroni: 1915
Lanthemann: 1918
Parisot: 1915
Wayne: 1918
The museum who owns it: 1918

I do not pretend to be a smart-ass but when you see the back of the painting it says the next: Modigliani. 3 Joseph Bara. Paris Juin 1917
As a little annoying smart-ass I will do an unnecessary translation: Modigliani = HIM 3 Joseph Bara = HIS ADDRESS AT ZBOROWSKY Paris = THE PLACE WHERE HE WAS LIVING THEN Juin = JUNE THE MONTH HE DID IT 1917 =1917 THE YEAR HE DID IT So why do we change the dating to 1915 or 20 or 18 ??? The answer is very simple because experts say that Modigliani ceased to write text in paintings in 1917 and the style of this painting seems like a previous style or as later style, it all goes with the opinion of the expert... Not with the evolution of the artist, just with the opinion of the expert.
IN CARDBOARD IS ALSO THE SAME, THERE IS CARDBOARD USED IN ALL THE PRODUCTION BY MODIGLIANI:
Cardboard year by year:
1906 to 1913

1898 ? Tuscan Road	1909? Woman with hat	1911-1912 Standing nude arms crossed	1911-1912 Standing nude arms open

1911-1912 Standing nude arms closed	1913 Standing nude in a garden	1913 Great Red Bust	1913 Study for Caryatid
1914

1914 Beatrice Hastings at the piano	1914 Unfinished Diego Rivera	1914 Study for Diego Rivera	1914 Diego Rivera

1914 Seated woman with glass	1914 Study for F. Burty Haviland	1914 Frank Burty Haviland
1915

1915 Red head	1915 Pierrot	1915 Picasso, savoir	1915 Woman with velvet lace

1915 Beatrice Hastings	1915 Beatrice Hastings	1915 Beatrice Hastings	1915 Beatrice Hastings

1915 Beatrice Hastings	1915 Beatrice Hastings seated	1915 Woman	1915 Woman

1915 Louise	1915 La petit Louise	1915 Beatrice Hastings	1915 Celso Lagar

1915 Paul Guillaume at his library	1915 Paul Guillaume. Novo pilota
1916

1916 Paul Guillaume	1916 Moise Kisling	1916 Woman head	1916 Man /Conrad Moricand?
1917

1916 ? Woman with pendant / B. Hastings	1917 Renne Kisling	1917 Jeanne Hebuterne with hat	1917 George /María Blanchard?

1917 Woman	1917 Blaise Cendrars	1917 Leopold Survage	1917 Lunia Czechowska

1917 Standing nude	1917 Hanka Zborowska	1917? Marthe	1917 - 1918? Woman

1915 - 1917? Soutine	1917 - 1918? Baranowski
1918

1918 Girl ??	1918 Monsieur Baranowski	1918 Head of Hanka Zborowska	1918-1919 Lunia with hand in cheek

1918 Girl	1918 Gaston Modot
1919

1919 Hanka Zborowska profile	1919 Annie Bjarn	1919 Woman head (the flower vendor)	1919 Woman
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I keep out a few more until I have more evidence
Mixing all the experts & publications the result is this: 1920 > 2 cardboards 1919 > 14 cardboards 1918 > 18 cardboards 1917 > 19 cardboards 1916 > 22 cardboards 1915 > 34 cardboards 1914 > 21 cardboards 1913 > 8 cardboards 1912 > 8 cardboards 1911 > 3 cardboards
In a future under technical (science area) there will be a more in deep technical explanation of the supports in cardboard used by Modigliani but just to give you a general idea, he liked very much a very rigid textured cardboard that experts usually mess with canvas, and if you don't see or touch the real thing unframed, then it is quite hard (using just a photo, it's impossible).
So one myth less, a commonly accepted knowledge is clearly untrue