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Date | 1915? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Title | Louise - Tete de jeune fille | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Materials | Oil on cardboard (Parisot / Ceroni: oil on paper and also canvas) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Size | 51.1 x 37.1 cm (Ceroni: 50 x 37) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Signature: | Signed "modigliani" in top left | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Actual Location | Private Collection (Triton Foundation?) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bibliography | -?- ( Pfannstiel mentions the big louise as nº 55 with a provenance in Guillaume, but no mention to smaller sketch) Descargues, Amedeo Modigliani. Braun, Paris, 1951, pl. 7 Descargues, Amedeo Modigliani, Braun, Paris, 1954, pl. 7 Russoli, Amedeo Modigliani, Exhib. catalogue Palazzo Reale, Edizioni dell'ente manifestazioni Milanesi, Milano, 1958, p. 23 Russell. Modigliani. Exh. cat., Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. 1963, p. 15 Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani : dessins et sculptures ; avec suite du catalogue illustre des peintures, Edizioni del Milione, Milano, 1965 - nº 50 Ponente, Modigliani, Ed. Toray, Barcelona, 1969 - nº 19 Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 77 Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 94 Mondadori, Modigliani a Montparnasse, Mondadori, Milano, 1988, p. 38 O. Patani, Amedeo Modigliani, catalogo generale: Dipinti, Milan, 1991 - nº 97 Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 nº 34/1915 Decrooq-Restellini, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, pp. 230-231 Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004-2005, p. 84 plate 8 (courtesy of Helly Nahmad ) Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007 in process |
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Exhibitions | -?- Milano, La donna nell'arte, da Hayez a Modigliani, Societa per le Belle Arti ed Esposizione Permanente, 1953 Milano, Mostra di Amedeo Modigliani, Palazzo Reale, Curated by Franco Russoli, 1958 - nº 16 - dated 1916 Roma, Modigliani, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, 1959 - nº 11 Edinburgh, Modigliani, Royal Scottish Academy, 1963 - nº 14 London, Modigliani, Tate Gallery, 1963 - nº 14 Frankfurt, Steinernes Haus Romerberg, 1963 - nº 12 Firenze, Arte Moderna in Italia 1915-1935, Palazzo Strozzi, 1967 - nº 441 Prato, 100 Opere di artisti toscani, 1972 - nº 73 Torino, Incontri Italiani, Galleria dello Scudo, 1984 - nº 30 Verona, Incontri Italiani, Galleria dello Scudo, 1984-1985 - nº 30 Milano, Palazzo della Permante, 1988, p. 38 Paris, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002 - nº 41 Milano, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Palazzo Reale, 2003 - nº 31 Tokyo, Modigliani et le primitivisme, The national Art Center, 2008 - n° 25 Osaka, Modigliani et le primitivisme, The national Museum of Art, 2008 - n° 25 South Korea, Amedeo Modigliani and Jeanne Hébuterne, Aram & Harmony Art Museum of Goyang, 2008, curated by Marc Restellini Madrid, Modigliani y su tiempo, Museo Nacional Thyssen Bornemisza, 2008 (Triton Foundation, Benelux) Bonn, Amedeo Modigliani: Ein Mythos der Moderne, Bundesrepublik, 2009 - nº 52 (as oil on canvas) Seoul, Amadeo Modigliani: Legend of Montparnasse, Hangaram Museum of Seoul Art Center, 2015 Genova, Modigliani, Palazzo Duccale, 2017 in process |
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Other | Big composition is Nº 273 in D'Atri papers as La petite Louise- dated 1915 - Guillaume Collection 1929 This composition is not mentioned. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Signature of the painting: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Detail of the ears where the drawing is clearly visible and is painted in color ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This work has a bigger version with very similar features only changing the background and the size, probably this work is the sketch for the bigger composition. - Parisot presented a drawing of the same girl with a nude torso (the image is inverted) in exhibition in Prague, Modigliani, Municipal house, Curated by Christian Parisot, 2010- 2011 with a datation in 1914. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is another drawing probably the original sketch in a US Collection? In the Cincinnati exhibition nº 38 "woman" Ca .1914 / wash and pencil 16 1/4 x 10 signed Modigliani lower right. Exhibited: Cincinnati, Amedeo Modigliani: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, The Contemporary Arts Center, 1959 Chicago, Amedeo Modigliani: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, The Arts Club, 1959 Milwaukee, Amedeo Modigliani: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Milwaukee Art Center, 1959 Provenance: Hammer Gallery NY Private Collection, Holland M. Knoedler & Co. NY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Image of the painting framed during the scandalous exhibition in Genoa in 2017: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In the exhibition at the GAM - Isola & Norzi, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, 2012 they showed the X- ray of the painting and talked about the possibility that little Louise portrait was underneath the actual painting, but it's not clear if it is real or just a work for the exhibit. |
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