Seated nude with coral necklace

Identification

Published titles

English: Seated nude with coral necklace; Nude with coral necklace.
French: Nu assis au collier.

Date

1917. Pfannstiel 1956 dated the work 1918.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

91.5 × 59.7 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right in white.

Present location

Private collection (Lewis Collection? in this investigation).

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. Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
2. Jacques Netter, Paris (1928).
3. Étienne Bignou, Paris.
4. A. J. McNeill Reid Collection, London.
5. Alex Reid & Lefevre, London (1929–33?).
6. Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20 June 1935, collection “L’Art Moderne,” Lucerne, lot 43.
7. Mrs S. Kaye, London.
8. Alex Reid & Lefevre, London (1949?).
9. Ralph F. Colin, acquired 10 June 1949.
10. Sale, Christie’s, New York, 10–11 May 1995, sale 8154, lot 24 (estimate USD 7,000,000–10,000,000; sold USD 12,432,500).
11. Private collection (Lewis 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. Where this investigation listed a long run of secondary mentions, only the principal catalogues and museum or sale references are retained here.

• André Salmon, 1926, pl. 20.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929, p. 41; 1956, no. 259 (dated 1918).²
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 121.³
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 213.⁴
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Françoise Cachin, 1972, no. 187.
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 30/1917.⁵
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 190 (dated 1917).⁶

Exhibitions

• Paris, Berthe Weill, 1917?
• London, Reid & Lefevre, 1929, no. 14; New York, De Hauke & Co., 1929, no. 29; Chicago, Arts Club, 1929.
• Brussels, Galerie Le Centaure, 1930, no. 37; Glasgow, 1930, no. 23.
• New York, Demotte, 1931, no. 8; London, Lefevre, 1932, no. 21.
• Brussels, 1933, no. 38; Basel, 1934, no. 30.
• London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, 1938; Lefevre Gallery, The Tragic Painters, 1938, no. 7 (Netter).
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1951; Knoedler, The Colin Collection, 1960, no. 55.
• Boston and Los Angeles, 1961, no. 22; New York, Perls Galleries, 1963, no. 15, and The Nudes of Modigliani, 1966, no. 6.
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 48.
• Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Nude encounters, 2017.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 38, dated 1917, 60 × 92 cm, titled Nu au collier (un œil clos), Zborowski → Fénéon.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

This investigation records the same sitter in the Guggenheim recumbent nude and related paintings of the series.

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