Identification

Title

English: La Fantesca - The servant.

Date

1915

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

81 x 46 cm

Signature

Signed "modigliani" top right

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. A. Lefèvre, Paris
2. Auction Palais Galliéra, Paris - 25 Nov. 1965 (Collection André Lefèvre, Tableaux Modernes) Lot 69
3. Private Collection, Paris
4. Galerie Cazeau
5. Béraudière, Paris
6. Monte Carlo Art S.A.
7. Auction: Sothebys
8. Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
9. New York | 04 Nov 2009 | N08587
10. Estimate: 3,500,000-5,000,000 USD - Sold: 3,666,500 USD
11. Private Collection ?
12. For sale at Ravenel Art Group
13. / Estimate on request ???

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.

• Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 61¹
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - no. 64²
• MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, pp. 232-233³
• Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004-2005, p. 117, pl. 32⁴
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007⁵
• Marini, Modigliani , Skira, France, 2008 - no. 28, p. 62⁶

Exhibitions

• Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Collection André Lefèvre, 1964 - no. 207
• New York, Amedeo Modigliani; loan exhibition, Acquavella Galleries, Inc. 1971- no. 7
• Prato,
• Opere di artisti toscani, Galeria d'arte moderna Fratelli Falsetti. 1972 - no. 72
• Paris, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002 - no. 42
• Milano, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Palazzo Reale, 2003 - no. 32
• Washington D.C., Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Phillips Collection, 2005
• Madrid, Modigliani y su tiempo, Museo Nacional Thyssen Bornemisza, 2008
• Tokyo, Modigliani et le primitivisme, The national Art Center, 2008 - no. 26
• Osaka, Modigliani et le primitivisme, The national Museum of Art, 2008 - no. 26

Notes

Not in D' Atri papers?

Signature of the painting:

Detail of the ears where the drawing is clearly visible and is painted in color

R mentions in " l'Ange du visage grave" p. 232 that this painting has the same "inspiration"as Antonia:

Just a simple look to the brushwork in close up show they could not be more different:

1.- Antonia is a classical sculptural composition made in color shades with small touches that reminds the macchiaioli style brushwork painters of his youth (look at small green little dots outside the face contour)

2.- Fantesca is a plain color filled composition of black line with almost a null

relief brushwork.

The painting framed for auction in Sotheby's in

2009:

Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.