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Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
Nº 110 Nº 115 Nº 153 YES 22/1916 Nº 156 YES YES
Date 1916 (Restellini dates in 1915 even if it is dated in low right)
Title Portrait of Oscar Miestchaninoff
Materials Oil on canvas
Size 81.2 x 65 cm (Wayne / Parisot 81 x 60 cm - Pfannstiel 73 x 64 - exhibit 1963: 81.5 x 65)
Signature: Signed "modigliani . " top left in black and dated "1916." bottom right in white
Actual Location Private Collection
Provenance -?-

César de Hauke, Paris
Jacques Sarlie, New York
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Sale: Sotheby & Co., London, 12 October 1960, lot 44
J. Koerfer Collection, Berne (acquired at the above sale)

Sale: Christie's, Important Paintings and Sculptures from a European Estate, New York - 7 November 1995 - Sale 8270 - Lot 2 (size in catalogue 81 x 60 cm)
Estimate: 6,000,000 - 8,000,000 USD - Sold: 9,352,500 USD

Private Collection, United States (acquired at the above sale)

Sale: Christie's New York - Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale - 6 November 2007 - Sale 1900 - Lot 47 (size in catalogue 81.2 x 65 cm)
Estimate: 18,000,000 - 25,000,000 USD - Sold: 30,841,000 USD

Private Collection

In process

Bibliography -?-

T. Soby, Modigliani, Museum of Modern art, New York, catalogue exp. 1951, p. 32
Raynal, Modigliani, Skira, Genève 1951, pl. 3
T. Soby, Modigliani, Museum of Modern art, New York, catalogue exp. 1954, p 36
Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 110
B. Borchert, Modigliani, London, 1960, p. 8
Sotheby's 217th Season 1960-1961, London, 1961
Russell. Modigliani. Exh. cat., Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. 1963, pl. 12
Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani : dessins et sculptures ; avec suite du catalogue illustre des peintures, Edizioni del Milione, Milano, 1965, p. 181
Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 115
Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 153
Musée de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Modigliani exib. cat., 1981, p. 125 -nº 40
Roy, Modigliani, Nathan, Paris, 1985, p. 94
Castieau-Barrielle, Modigliani, ACR Editions, Paris, 1987, p. 114
Parisot, Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1988, p. 123
Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel, Munich, 1990, p. 91 - nº 42
Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991- nº 22/1916
Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 156
Parisot, Modigliani, Pierre Terrail, Paris, 1992, p.89
Wayne, Modigliani & the Artists of Montparnasse, Abrams-Albright-knox gallery, New York, 2002, p. 41, f. 21
Decrooq-Restellini, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, p. 42 (incorrectly dated in 1915 - the painting is dated 1916 in low right )
Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007

In process

Exhibitions -?-

Cleveland, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Cleveland Museum of Art,1951, p. 51
New York, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, 1951, p. 32
Paris, Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Oeuvres Choisies du XXe Siècle, 1962 - nº 46
Edinburgh, Modigliani, Royal Scottish Academy, 1963 - nº 19
London, Modigliani, Tate Gallery, 1963 - nº 19
Paris,Paris - Moscou - 1900-1930, Centre Georges Pompidou,1979 nº 164
Paris, Modigliani, Musée de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981 - nº 40
Düsseldorf, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 1991 - nº 44
Zurich, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Kunsthaus, 1991 - nº 44
Lausanne, Modigliani, Utrillo, Soutine, Les peintres de Zborowski et leurs amis - Fondation de L'Hérmitage, 1994, p. 163 - nº 5

In process

Other
Not in D´Atri papers

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Signature of the painting:

signature


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

ears

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Lanthemann presented this as the preparatory sketch for the portrait:
Oscar Miestchaninoff amedeo modigliani

There is another portrait of the same subject dated as from 1917:

mechan amedeo modigliani

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The painting framed for auction in 2007:

Portrait of Oscar Miestchaninoff for auction
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Changes of the painting from 1980 to actual 2017, after cleaning of the oxidated varnish layers:

cleaning of Portrait of Oscar Miestchaninoff f fom 1980 to 2018
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