nudo dolente amedeo modigliani
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
Nº 5 Nº 19 Nº 8 YES 6/1908 Nº 13 YES ?
Date 1908
Title Nudo dolente - Nude sketch - Nu etude
Materials Oil on Canvas
Size 81 x 53.3 cm (Ceroni, Patani 81 x 54)
Signature: Signed "Modigliani" right bottom in blue
Actual Location Private Collection?
Provenance
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    Dr. Paul Alexandre, Paris
    Private Collection, Paris (until 1991?)
    Dr Reubin Hecht, Haifa
    Richard Nathanson, London
    Private Collection
Bibliography
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    Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 2, (other sources say p. 3 - n° III
    Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 5
    Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - nº 6
    Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 19
    Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 8
    Mann, Modigliani, Thames & Hudson, 1980, p. 43
    Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel Verlag, 1990 p. 57
    Alexandre, The Unknown Modigliani: Drawings from the Collection of Paul Alexandre, 1993, page 38
    Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani Tome II, Graphis Arte, 1991 Nº 6/1908
    Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel Verlag, 1990-91, p. 57 - nº 9
    Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo ed. Milano 1991-94 - nº 13
    D. Krystof, Amedeo Modigliani: The Poetry of Seeing, Taschen Cologne, 2000, p. 11
    Decrooq-Restellini, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, p.41
    Soto Caba, Modigliani, the timeless face, Libsa, 2007
    Restellini, La Collection Jonas Netter, Pinacotheque de Paris, 2012, p.101
    Ireson, Fraquelli, Modigliani, London, Tate Modern, Skira Rizzoli, London, 2017, p. 29

    In Process
Exhibitions
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    Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Amedeo Modigliani. Malerei, Skulpturen, 1991 - nº 3
    Zürich, Kunsthaus, Amedeo Modigliani. Malerei, Skulpturen, 1991 - nº 3
    Tokyo, Tobu Museum, 1992
    Kyoto, Musée Daimaru, 1993
    Osaka, Musée Daimaru d’Umeda, 1993
    Ibaraki, Musée d’Art Moderne, 1993
    Cologne, Museum Ludwig, 1994
    Bruges, Centro d’Arte San Giovanni, 1994
    Tokyo, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo 1995?
    Rouen, Musée des Beaux Arts, 1996
    Torino, Modigliani e la Bohème di Parigi, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, 2015
    London, Modigliani, Tate Modern, 2017-2018

    In process
Other Nº 231 as Nu doloreux in D' Atri with a mention that in the back of the painting (VERSO) there is a face of a man sketched, no image availble.

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Detail of the ears where the drawing is clearly visible and is painted over the color (on top of the color)

ears


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signature:

signature


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As can be seen at near inspection, the canvas is reused:
ghost under nudo dolente

This area of the signature turned 180 degrees show another portrait of a red head woman a very common re use of canvas on the first Modigliani times.
  This painting can be seen on pictures on the move out from the Delta in 1913.
view of nudo dolente outside the delata .
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