Identification

Published titles

English: Nude on a white cushion; Nude on her back. French: Nu; Grande Vénus.

Date

?
Other sources recorded in the file date it 1917, 1918 or 1919?.
The 1958 Charpentier exhibition dated it 1919?.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

73 × 116 cm, recorded with a query.

Signature

Signed modigliani at upper right.

Present location

Unpublished in this investigation.

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. Eppler Collection (recorded with a query).
2. Moltzau Collection (recorded with a query).

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.

• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent tableaux de Modigliani, 1958, no. 97.
• Jean-Albert Cartier, Modigliani: Nus, Paris, Hazan, 1958.
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970 (number not printed in this investigation).¹

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent tableaux de Modigliani, 1958, no. 97 (dated 1919).

Notes

This investigation marks the work as not located in the D’Atri papers.

This investigation reproduces a second, brighter colour image and asks whether it represents the same painting.

Published documentation for this file is thin. Catalogue numbers, exhibitions and bibliography are given only where this investigation recorded them.

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.