Reclining nude on the back
Oil on canvas, 1917
Identification
- Published titles
- English: Reclining nude on the back; Reclining nude (on the back); Nude lying on her back.
French: Nu couché sur le dos. - Date
- 1917. Pfannstiel 1956 dates a related entry 1920. The source bibliography also cites Lanthemann no. 413 dated 1919; this investigation gives Lanthemann no. 149.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas.
- Dimensions
- 65 × 100 cm?
- Signature
- Signed modigliani at top left.
- Present location
- Private collection, London?
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 325 |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 149 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 201 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | 39/1917 |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 209 |
| Modigliani Project | YES |
| MR | YES |
| Modigliani Initiative | ? |
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
- Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
- Galerie Weill, Paris (1917)?
- Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
- Coquiot Collection, Paris.
- Galerie Bing, Paris.
- Crespau Collection, Paris (1929).
- Private collection, Switzerland.
- Rafael Crespo Collection, Buenos Aires (1931).
- Rockefeller Collection, New York?
- N. Collection, London?
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.
- Gustave Coquiot, Cubistes, futuristes, passéistes, Paris, 1923, p. 124.
- Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929, p. 54.1
- Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 352 in one citation and no. 325 in this investigation.2
- Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 118.3
- Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 149 in this investigation; the same file also cites no. 413 dated 1919.4
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 201.5
- Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 39/1917.6
- Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 209.7
- MR, 2002, pp. 308–309 (dated 1917).8
- Mason Klein, 2004, pl. 14, p. 67.9
Exhibitions
- Paris, Berthe Weill Gallery, 1917 (recorded with a query).
- Paris, Galerie Marcel Bernheim, 1931, no. 24 (Nu couché, dated 1918).
- Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 67.
Notes
D’Atri papers no. 253, dated 1919, titled Nu couché, 65 × 100 cm, Coquiot Collection.
This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.
This investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.
Footnotes
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani. L’Art et la Vie, preface by Louis Latourette, Paris, Seheur, 1929 (presumed catalogue).
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.
- Ambrogio Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: peintre; suivi des souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Milan, Edizioni del Milione, 1958.
- Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
- Christian Parisot, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, Livorno, Graphis Arte, 1991.
- Osvaldo Patani, Modigliani. Catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
- MR, Modigliani: l’ange au visage grave, Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002.
- Mason Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, New York, The Jewish Museum, 2004.