Identification

Published titles

English: Reclining Nude; Lying Nude with Right Arm under the Head; Lying Blond Nude; Sleeping Nude; Jeanne Hébuterne Nude.
French: Grand nu couché; Nu à la fresque.

Date

Ceroni dates the work 1919. This investigation marks the year as uncertain.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

Usually given as 116 × 73 cm. Galerie Charpentier, 1958, no. 93, recorded 73 × 115 cm (the same dimensions, reversed).

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Private collection. Earlier owners recorded in this investigation: Paul Guillaume, Paris, then a Paris private collection by 1953.

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. Not documented before Paul Guillaume.
2. Paul Guillaume, Paris.
3. Unrecorded interval.
4. Drouot, Paris, 2 July 1943, lot 71.
5. Unrecorded interval.
6. Private collection, Paris (by 1953).
7. Subsequent ownership not documented.
8. Private collection.

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.

• Ambrogio Ceroni, Rizzoli 1970 and French 1972, no. 323, dated 1919, as Lying Nude with Right Arm under the Head, 116 × 73 cm.¹
• MR, Luxembourg 2002, no. 101, pp. 382, 385.²
• Victoria Soto Caba, Libsa, 2007.³
• MR, Pinacothèque de Paris, 2008, pp. 164–165.
• Nancy Ireson and Simonetta Fraquelli, Tate / Skira Rizzoli, 2017, p. 147.⁴

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie de France, 1945–46, no. 20, as Grand nu couché.
• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 1958, no. 93.
• Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 101.
• London, Tate Modern, 2017–2018.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers.

This investigation states that the painting has been cleaned recently. That information is not independently confirmed.

A comparative photograph in this investigation assembles three versions of the same composition. No claim is made here as to which version is the prime object.

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