Reclining nude with arm across the forehead

Identification

Published titles

English: Reclining nude; Reclining nude with the left hand on the forehead; Nude with yellow cushion; Reclining nude with raised arms.

Date

1917? Lanthemann dates the work 1916.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

64.8 × 99.7 cm. Pfannstiel, Ceroni, Patani, Parisot and MR: 65 × 100 cm.

Signature

Unsigned.

Present location

Private collection.

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. Reichenbach Collection, Paris.
3. Sale, Drouot, Paris, 1930.
4. Baixeras Collection, Paris.
5. Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 3 June 1937, lot 19.
6. Arthur Tooth & Sons, London (1938).
7. Henry Bing Gallery (1946).
8. Lindon Collection, New York.
9. Zeisler Collection, New York.
10. Private 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.

• Carl Einstein, Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Berlin, 1926, Modigliani pl. 4.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 195 in one citation in this investigation and no. 152 in the table (dated 1917; 100 × 65 cm).¹
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1965, no. 198.²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 152 (dated 1916).³
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 194.⁴
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 41/1917.⁵
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 201.⁶
• Mason Klein, 2004, p. 62, fig. 10.⁷
• MR, 2008, p. 51.⁸

Exhibitions

• Paris, Berthe Weill, 1917? (this investigation marks the citation as unconfirmed).
• Paris, Galerie Marcel Bernheim, 1931, no. 11 or no. 24?
• London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, 1938, no. 28.
• Paris, Galerie Bing, 1946; Galerie Charpentier, 1946.
• Cleveland and New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1951.
• Cincinnati, Chicago and Milwaukee, 1959; Atlanta, 1960, no. 16.
• Boston and Los Angeles, 1961, no. 16; Edinburgh and London, Tate, 1963, no. 37.
• New York, Perls Galleries, The Nudes of Modigliani, 1966, no. 7.
• New York, Acquavella Galleries, 1971, no. 24 (Zeisler Collection, dated 1917).
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 49.
• Tokyo and Nagoya, 1985, no. 82.

Notes

This investigation marks the work as absent from the D’Atri papers, or possibly no. 245, 65 × 100 cm, titled Nu couché, Zborowski 1929 → Bernheim-Jeune.

Unsigned.

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