Nude woman bust amedeo modigliani
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
Nº 10 Nº 33 Nº 10 YES 3/1908 Nº 15 YES YES
Date 1909 ? 1908 ?
Title Nude Woman bust - La petite Jeanne - young nude
Materials Oil on Canvas
Size 61 x 38 cm
Signature: Signed "modigliani" bottom left
Actual Location Private Collection ?
Provenance
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    Paul Alexandre, Paris
    Perls Galleries, New York
    Private Collection ?


Bibliography
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    Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 4
    Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 10
    Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - nº 8
    Roy , Modigliani, Skira, Lausanne, 1958, p. 25
    Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 33
    Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 10
    Mann, 1980, page 14
    Carluccio, Leymarie, Negri, Russoli, Brunhammer, École de Paris, Rive Gauche, Paris, 1981, p. 198
    Modigliani - Gli anni della scultura, Ed. Mondadori, Milan 1984, page 67
    Catalogue National Museum Tokyo 1985, n° 3
    C. Roy, 1985, Ed. Nathan, page 15
    Castieau-Barrielle, Modigliani, Editions ACR Paris, 1987, page 32
    Mondadori, Modigliani a Montparnasse, 1988, page 33
    Catalogue Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Verona 1988, page 33
    Angela Ceroni, Les nus, Paris 1989, page 43
    Catalogue Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny 1990, n° 3
    Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel Verlag, 1990-91, p. 60 - nº 12
    Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991- n º 3/1908
    Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94
    - nº 15
  • Soto Caba, Modigliani, the timeless face, Libsa, 2007
    Ireson/ Lewis, Modigliani, London, Tate Mdern, 2017

    Ireson, Fraquelli, Modigliani, London, Tate Modern, Skira Rizzoli, London, 2017, p. 28

    In process

Exhibitions
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    Paris, Salon des Artistes Indépendants, 1908 - nº 4326
    Bruxelles, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1933 - n° 4
    Livourne, Gli anni della scultura, Villa Maria 1984 - nº 1
    Tokyo, Modigliani exhibition, National Museum, 1985 - nº 3
    Nagoya, Modigliani exhibition, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, 1985
    Verona, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, 1988, p. 33
    Martigny, Modigliani, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1990 - nº 6
    Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Amedeo Modigliani. Malerei, Skulpturen, 1991 - nº 5
    Zürich, Kunsthaus, Amedeo Modigliani. Malerei, Skulpturen, 1991 - nº 5
    London, Modigliani, Tate Modern, 2017-2018

    In process
Other
Nº 4 and nº 232 in D' Atri files located in Alexandre Collection, Paris
mention that in the back there are many figures, probably he is talking of the frontal image more than from (verso) back of the painting, I have not seen the image from the verso.

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signature:

signature

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As can be seen at near inspection, the canvas is reused:

ghost under nude woman bust

This is the area of the signature turned 180 degrees, another portrait of a woman is visible, a very common re use of canvas on
the first Modigliani times.
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