Seated blond nude with folded hands

Identification

Published titles

English: Seated nude with hands in lap / Seated nude with folded hands / Blond nude seated.

Date

1918, unconfirmed.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

100.3 × 64.8 cm, unconfirmed.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Honolulu Museum of Art, inv. 2895.1, as Seated Nude, about 1918. Gift of Mrs Carter Galt, 1960. The 1974 date is not supported by the museum credit line.

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. Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris.
2. Private collection, Paris.
3. Helen Hughes Richards Collection.
4. Carter Galt Collection, Honolulu (to 1960).
5. Honolulu Museum of Art, gift of Mrs Carter Galt, 1960.

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.

• Giovanni Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana no. 8, Milan, Hoepli, 1935-XIV, pl. 24, at Bernheim-Jeune.
• Pierre Descargues, Amedeo Modigliani, Paris, Braun, 1954, pl. 53.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 296, as Seated nude, dated 1918, collection unknown.¹
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 267, dated 1918, as lost.²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 279, as Blond nude seated, dated 1918.³
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 280, dated 1918.⁴
• R. Chiappini (ed.), Lugano 1999, no. 53 (paintings catalogue by Decrooq).
• Kenneth Wayne, 2002, no. 30, p. 107, dated 1918.⁵
• Simonetta Fraquelli, “Modigliani, Fort Worth and Paris,” The Burlington Magazine 145 (2003), pp. 254–255.

Exhibitions

• Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Ibaraki, Exposition Amedeo Modigliani au Japon, 1992–93, no. 35.
• Lugano, Museo d’Arte Moderna, 1999, no. 53.
• Buffalo, Fort Worth and Los Angeles, Modigliani and the Artists of Montparnasse, 2002–03, no. 30.

Notes

Presence in the D’Atri papers is unconfirmed.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

This investigation records a late-twentieth-century cleaning that reduced the original colour and made several drawn lines nearly invisible. An earlier photograph is published for comparison.

The same model and a related pose are compared with a standing nude dated 1917 and with other 1918 seated nudes.

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