Beatrice hastings in front of a door Amedeo Modigliani
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
Nº 39 Nº 83 Nº 81 YES 20/1915 Nº 83 YES YES
Date 1915
Title Beatrice Hastings in front of a door / Beatrice Hastings devant une porte
Materials Oil on canvas
Size 81. 3 x 46.4 cm
Signature: Signed "Modigliani / 1915" in top right
Actual Location Private Collection (Ivor Braka Ltd?)
Provenance
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    Leopold Zborowski, Paris
    Marcel Bernheim Collection, Paris
    Baixeras Collection, Paris
    Sale: Drouot, Paris, 27 / February / 1932 - Lot 91 as La femme au médaillon (not sure on this entry, but is more than probably)
    Leon Brillouin Collection, New York (by 1956)
    M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York
    Collection Louis Ritter, Scarsdale, New York (by 1959)

    sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet ., New York, 25 October 1972, lot 36

    Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York.

    Private collection, Japan (by the late 1970s).

    Sold in Auction: Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art (Evening Sale) - New York | 6 November 2002 - Lot 35
    Estimate: 3.000.000 - 4.000.000 USD - Sold: 4.189.500 USD

    iPrivate Collection (lent to Royal academy by Ivor Braka Ltd, London)

    in process

Bibliography -?-

The Little Review, Autumn and winter, Paris/London -1923-1924, repr. p. 79
Salmon, Modigliani, sa vie et son oeuvre, Ed. Quatre Chemins, Paris, 1926 - p. 21 ( as "au chapeau")
Kunst und Künstler, Nº XXVIII- Bruno Cassirer, Berlin 1929 - p. 393 (Illustrated)
Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 15 - p. 6
T. Soby, Modigliani, Museum of Modern art, New York, catalogue exp. 1954, p. 27
Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, H.N. Abrams, New York, 1954, p. 31
Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 39
Salmon, Modigliani a memoir, Putnam's sons, New York, 1957 - p. 31 ( as "Beatrice Hastings")
Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - nº 45
Roy , Modigliani, Skira, Lausanne, 1958, p. 70
Werner, Amedeo Modigliani , H. Abrams, New York 1966, p. 93 - 1967 p. 84
Geza, Modigliani, Tchekislovakia, 1969 - nº 18
Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 83
Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 81
Carswell, Lives and Letters: A.R. Orage, Beatrice Hastings, Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murry, S.S. Koteliansky, London, 1978, p. 121
Mann, Modigliani, Thames and Hudson, London, 1980, p. 11 - nº 76
Roy, Modigliani, Nathan, Paris, 1985, p. 65
Castieau-Barrielle, Modigliani, ACR Editions, Paris, 1987, p. 125
O. Patani, Amedeo Modigliani, catalogo generale: Dipinti, Milan, 1991 - nº 83
Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 nº 20/1915
D. Krystof, Amedeo Modigliani 1884-1920: The Poetry of Seeing, Cologne, p. 55
Decrooq-Restellini, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, p. 31
Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004-2005, p. 129 - pl. 44 ( courtesy Ivor Braka Ltd. London)
Fraquelli, Modigliani and His Models. Exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts. London, 2006, p. 85 - nº 9
Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007

in process

Exhibitions -?-

Paris, Modigliani, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1922
Cleveland, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Cleveland Museum of Art,1951
New York, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, 1951
Palm Beach, Modigliani, Society of the Four Arts and University of Miami, Lowe Gallery, 1954 - nº 15
New York, Paintings From The Ritter Collection , Fine Arts Associates
Cincinnati, Amedeo Modigliani: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, The Contemporary Arts Center, 1959 - nº 4
Chicago, Amedeo Modigliani: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, The Arts Club, 1959
Milwaukee, Amedeo Modigliani: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Milwaukee Art Center, 1959
Atlanta, The Art of Modigliani: Loan Exhibition Museums, Collectors & Dealers, Art Association Galleries, 1960 - nº 3
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1961 - nº 5
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1961 - nº 5
New York, Amedeo Modigliani, Perls Galleries, 1963 - nº 7
Czechoslovakia, Modigliani,1969 - nº 18
New York, Summer Loan Exhibition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, Amedeo Modigliani, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., 1971 - nº 8
New York, Summer Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, 1971-1972
Kyoto, Exhibition of Treasured Masterpieces Century Painting, Municipal Museum of Art, 1973
New York, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004
Toronto, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Art Gallery of Ontario, 2004 - 2005
Washington D.C., Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Phillips Collection, 2005
London, Modigliani and his models, Royal Academy of Arts, 2006, nº 9 (P.C. courtesy of Ivor Braka Ltd)
Bonn, Amedeo Modigliani: Ein Mythos der Moderne, Bundesrepublik, 2009 - nº 46

in process

Other
Nº 267 in D' Atri papers, wwrong size 81 x 54 - dated 1915 - Baixeras Coll. by 1929

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Signature of the painting:

signature


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Detail of the ear where the drawing is clearly visible and is painted over the color (on top of the color)

ears


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The painting framed in NY for the 2002 auction:

Beatrice hastings in front of a door framed for auction in 2002
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