Identification

Published titles

English: Nude on a divan; Nude; Lying nude.

Date

1916?

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

60.2 × 91.7 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (inv. 1963.10.77).

Catalogue numbers

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

1. Madame Castaing, Château de Lèves, Paris.
2. André de Coppet, Paris.
3. Galerie Lalot, Paris.
4. Chester Dale, June 1928 (acquired from Lalot).
5. Bequest to the National Gallery of Art, 1963 (inv. 1963.10.77).

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. Where this investigation listed a long run of secondary mentions, only the principal catalogues and museum or sale references are retained here.

• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, 1943–1951.
• National Gallery of Art, Washington, summary and illustrated catalogues, 1965, 1968, 1975, 1985.
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 211.¹
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 145.²
• John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, rev. ed., New York, 1984, no. 897.
• Philip Kopper, America’s National Gallery of Art, New York, 1991.

Exhibitions

• New York, Demotte, Amedeo Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, 1931, no. 28.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, 1943–1951.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, long-term loan, 1954–1963.
• Washington, National Gallery of Art, Modigliani: An Anniversary Exhibition, 1983–1984.

Notes

This investigation publishes a photograph of the work framed at the National Gallery of Art in 2018, and a photograph of the interior of Chester Dale’s residence at 20 East 79th Street, New York, c. 1930.

The working notes for this investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.