cypresses and houses at cagnes  by Amedeo Modigliani
Image Courtesy of the Barnes Foundation
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
Nº 246 Nº 367 Nº 291 YES 6/1919 Nº 303 YES YES
Date 1919
Title Cypresses and houses at Cagnes - Cypresses and houses - Landscape of the Midi - Landscape trees and houses
Materials oil on canvas
Size 61 x 46 cm
Signature: Signed "modigliani" bottom right in green
Actual Location Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (Inv. nº BF259)
Provenance -?-
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Paul Guillaume, Paris
Albert C. Barnes Collection, Philadelphia

Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (Inv. nº BF259)

In process

Bibliography

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Der Querschnitt, Berlin July 1926, p. 527
Florent Fels, Modigliani, Paris, 1926
Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 39
Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana nº 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milano, 1932, pl. 25
Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana nº 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milano, 1936-XIV, pl. 26
Barnes, de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939, 140-1 -nº 360
Franchi, Modigliani, Arnaud, Firenze, 1944, pl. 26
Franchi, Modigliani, Arnaud, Firenze, 1947, pl. 44
Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana nº 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milan, 1950, pl. 25
Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, H.N. Abrams, New York, 1954, pl. 62
Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 246 - titled Landscape of the Midi - dated 1918
Note witht the text : signed bottom left - the painting is clearly signed bottom right

Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana nº 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Zurich, 1958, pl. 55
Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - nº 101
Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 367 - titled Landscape trees and houses, Cagnes - dated 1919
Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 291 - titled Cypresses and houses - dated 1919
Ceroni & Cachin, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Modigliani, Paris, 1972 - nº 291 - titled Cypresses and houses - dated 1919
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 7 - nº 1, 1976, pl. 41
Carluccio, Leymarie, Negri, Russoli, Brunhammer, École de Paris, Rive Gauche, Paris, 1981, p. 317
Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 303 - titled Cypresses and houses - dated 1919
Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 - nº 6 / 1919 - titled Cypresses and houses at Cagnes - dated 1919
Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007

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Exhibitions -?-
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The painting has never left the Barnes since it was acquired

In process

Other
Nº 214 in D'Atri papers as Paysage du Midi, 61 x 38 - signed bottom right - painted 1918 Cagnes - provenance in Paul Guillaume 1929

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This painting signature is made in green color:

signature
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In this painting is very interesting to see the use of the line made in a grey blue color that vivdly dare to contrast:

In this painting is very interesting to see the use of the line made in a grey blue color that vivdly contrast to the yellow/orange walls
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Framed at the Barnes Collection:


framed
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The painting in location at the Barnes:

The painting in location at the Barnes
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