Reclining nude from the back
Oil on canvas, 1917
Identification
- Published titles
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English: Reclining nude from the back; Nude on the back.
French: Nu couché de dos. - Date
- 1917. Pfannstiel 1956 dated the work 1919.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas.
- Dimensions
- 64.8 × 99.7 cm. Patani: 65 × 100 cm.
- Signature
- Signed modigliani at top right.
- Present location
- Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, inv. BF576.
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 332 |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 390 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 203 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | 45/1917 |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 207 |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | ? |
| Modigliani Initiative | YES |
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
- Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
- Barbazanges, Paris (1929).
- Paul Guillaume, Paris.
- Alfred Barnes Collection, Philadelphia.
- Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, inv. BF576.
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.
- Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929, p. 52; 1956, no. 332 (dated 1919; 100 × 65 cm).1
- Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 126.2
- Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 390.3
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 203.4
- Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 45/1917.5
- Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 207.6
- Richard J. Wattenmaker and Anne Distel, Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation, New York, Knopf, 1993, pp. 218–19.
- Mason Klein, 2004, pp. 55, 73.7
Exhibitions
- Paris, Berthe Weill, 1917? (this investigation marks the citation as unconfirmed).
- Paris, Galerie Bing, 1925 (number not recorded).
- Thereafter in the Barnes Collection.
Notes
D’Atri papers no. 251, Nu couché sur le divan, 65 × 100 cm, dated 1919, Zborowski → Barbazanges (acquired from Zborowski in 1929).
This investigation records holes at the corners of the support.
This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.
This investigation records the same sitter in other paintings of the series (comparison year/1917-29/similar.jpg).
The Barnes Foundation confirms Reclining Nude from the Back (Nu couché de dos), 1917, oil on canvas, 64.8 × 99.7 cm, inv. BF576, on view in Room 21.
This investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.
Footnotes
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.
- Ambrogio Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: peintre; suivi des souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Milan, Edizioni del Milione, 1958.
- Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
- Christian Parisot, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, Livorno, Graphis Arte, 1991.
- Osvaldo Patani, Modigliani. Catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
- Mason Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, New York, The Jewish Museum, 2004.