VENUS - NU MEDICIS  BY AMEDEO MODIGLIANI
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
NO? Nº 193 Nº 189 YES ? Nº 193 YES ?
Date 1917
Title Standing nude - Nu - Vénus - Nu debout - Nu Médicis - Venere - Nude
Materials Oil on canvas
Size 99.5 x 84.5 cm
Signature: Signed "modigliani" top right in white
Actual Location Private Collection?
Provenance -?-

Léopold Zborowski, Paris
Berthe Weill, Paris (?)
?
Netter Collection, Paris (acquired to above?)
Perls Galleries, New York (by 1966)
Galerie de l'Elysée, Paris
Private Collection; France

Sale: Christie's, New York, Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale, 8-November-2006 - Sale 1722- Lot 31
Estimate: 6.000.000 - 9.000.000 USD - Sold: 15.920.000 USD

The auction text:
Please note this work has been requested for the exhibition Modigliani et le Primitivisme to be held at the Tokyo National Gallery and the Osaka National Art Museum from March to September 2007
(finally the work was not present in the exhibition)

Private Collection

In Process

Bibliography -?-

Franchi, Modigliani, Arnaud, Firenze, 1944, pl. 14
Franchi, Modigliani, Arnaud, Firenze, 1947, pl. 14
Cocteau, Modigliani, Hazan, Paris, 1951, p. 5
Sonabel, Modigliani: Nudes - nº . 18, pl. 6
Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, Garzanti, Milano 1967 - nº 14
Ponente, Modigliani, Ed. Toray, Barcelona, 1969 - nº 62
Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº
Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 189 (dated 1917)
Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 193
Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, New York, 1985, pl. 14 (dated 1918 - Perls Galleries)
Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 193 ( size 100 x 65 - titled Nudo in piedi (Venere))
Krystof, Amedeo Modigliani: The Poetry of Seeing, Taschen, Cologne, 2000, p. 60
Meyers, Modigliani: A Life, New York, 2006, pp. 189-190
Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007
Ireson, Fraquelli, Modigliani, London, Tate Modern, Skira Rizzoli, London, 2017, p. 142

In process

Exhibitions -?-

Paris, Modigliani , Berthe Weill Gallery, 1917 (?)
Brussels, Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition. Palais des beaux-arts, 1933 - nº 29 ?
Basel, Amedeo Modigliani, Kunsthalle, 1934 ?
Paris, Modigliani Peintures, Galerie de France, 1945-46 - nº 11
Paris, Cent Tableaux de Modigliani, Galerie Charpentier, 1958 - nº 85 , as Venus (size 100 x 64.5)
New York, The Nudes of Modigliani, Perls Galleries, 1966 - nº 4
New York, From Modigliani to Currin, Gagosian Gallery, 2016
London, Modigliani, Tate Modern, 2017-2018

In process

Other
Nº 29 in D' Atri papers dated end of 1917 - titled Nu Medicis- size 100 x 65 - Netter Collection

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Signature:

signature

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Framed at the Tate Gallery Exhibit 2017:
Framed at the Tate Gallery Exhibit


The painting at the Tate Gallery exhibit in 2017:
The painting at the Tate Gallery exhibit in 2017

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The painting real colors are very hard to reflect in photo, the hair is almost ginger color:






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