Seated nude holding a shirt

Identification

Published titles

English: Seated nude.
French: Nu assis tenant une chemise contre la poitrine; Nu assis à la chemise.

Date

1917. Pfannstiel 1956 dated the work 1918.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

92 × 67.5 cm. Pfannstiel: 92 × 73 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

LaM, Lille Métropole musée d’art moderne, Villeneuve-d’Ascq, inv. 979.4.105. Gift of Geneviève and Jean Masurel, 1979.

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. Dutilleul Collection, Paris.
3. Masurel Collection, Paris.
4. LaM, Villeneuve-d’Ascq, inv. 979.4.105, gift of Geneviève and Jean Masurel, 1979.

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.

• Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, Modigliani peintures, Paris, Éditions du Chêne, 1947 and 1953, pl. 10.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 309 (dated 1918; 92 × 73 cm).¹
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 162.²
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 191.³
• Werner Schmalenbach, 1990, p. 115, no. 64.⁴
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 196.⁵
• MR, 2002, no. 62, pp. 298–99.⁶

Exhibitions

• Paris, Berthe Weill, 1917? (this investigation marks the citation as unconfirmed).
• Paris, Galerie Montaigne, 1920, no. 3.
• Paris, Galerie de France, 1945–46, no. 15 (dated 1918).
• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 1958, no. 81; Marseille, Musée Cantini, 1958, no. 27.
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 52.
• Tokyo and Nagoya, 1985, no. 84.
• Düsseldorf and Zurich, 1991, no. 55.
• Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 62; Milan, 2003, no. 43.
• Japan tour of the Lille collection, 2006–07.
• Villeneuve-d’Ascq, Budapest and Helsinki, 2016–17; Genoa, 2017.

Notes

This investigation marks the work as not located in the D’Atri papers.

This investigation records the same sitter in other paintings of the series.

This investigation notes that the painting was part of a Modigliani technical research study in 2019.

LaM, Lille Métropole Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut, confirms Nu assis à la chemise, 1917, oil on canvas, 92 × 67.5 cm, inv. 979.4.105, gift of Geneviève and Jean Masurel, 1979.

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