Lot 169
  • 169

Amedeo Modigliani

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
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Description

  • Amedeo Modigliani
  • Étude pour L'Amazone
  • Charcoal on paper
  • 12 1/8 by 9 1/8 in.
  • 30.7 by 23.1 cm

Provenance

Dr. Paul Alexandre, Paris
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Comte Joseph de Maistre, Paris
Acquired from the above in July 1956

Exhibited

Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Amedeo Modigliani, 1981, no. 107b, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, An Anniversary Exhibition: Modigliani, 1983-84, n.n.
Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art & Aichi, Prefectural Art Gallery, Modigliani, 1985, no. 13, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Martigny, Switzerland, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Modigliani, 1990, no. 8b, illustrated in the catalogue
Tokyo, Musée Tobu; Kyoto, Musée Daimaru de Kyoto; Osaka, Musée Daimaru d’Umeda & Ibaraki, Musée d’Art Moderne, Amedeo Modigliani au Japon, 1992-93, no. D3, illustrated in the catalogue


 

Literature

Thérèse Castieau-Barrielle, La Vie et l'oeuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Paris, 1987, illustrated p. 34
Christian Parisot, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: dessins, aquarelles, vol. I, no. 4/09, illustrated in color p. 229
Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani: catalogo generale, sculture e disegni 1909-1914, Milan, 1992, no. 43, illustrated p. 80

Condition

This work is in very good condition. Executed on cream wove paper taped to a mat at upper corners on verso. Left edge of sheet is perforated. There is a small loss at extreme lower left corner, a crease a lower right corner and a one-centimeter mat stain around the perimeter. Sheet is somewhat time darkened overall but the line is strong. On the verso of the sheet there is a faint sketch for a woman's head.
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