Nudo dolente - Nude sketch - Nu etude

Identification

Title

English: Nudo dolente - Nude sketch - Nu etude.

Date

1908

Medium

Oil on Canvas

Dimensions

81 x 53.3 cm (Ceroni, Patani 81 x 54)

Signature

Signed "Modigliani" right bottom in blue

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 Research Project 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. Dr. Paul Alexandre, Paris
2. Private Collection, Paris (until 1991?)
3. Dr Reubin Hecht, Haifa
4. Richard Nathanson, London
5. 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.

• Pfannstiel, "catalogue présumé" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 2, (other sources say p. 3 - no. III¹
• Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonne, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1956 - no. 5²
• Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - no. 6³
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 19⁴
• Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 8⁵
• Mann, Modigliani, Thames & Hudson, 1980, p. 43⁶
• Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel Verlag, 1990 p. 57⁷
• Alexandre, The Unknown Modigliani: Drawings from the Collection of Paul Alexandre, 1993, page 38
• Parisot, Catalogue Raisonné Modigliani Tome II, Graphis Arte, 1991 no. 6/1908⁸
• Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel Verlag, 1990-91, p. 57 - no. 9⁷
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo ed. Milano 1991-94 - no. 13⁹
• D. Krystof, Amedeo Modigliani: The Poetry of Seeing, Taschen Cologne, 2000, p. 11
• MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, p.41¹⁰
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, the timeless face, Libsa, 2007¹¹
• R, La Collection Jonas Netter, Pinacotheque de Paris, 2012, p.101
• Ireson, Fraquelli, Modigliani, London, Tate Modern, Skira Rizzoli, London, 2017, p. 29¹²

Exhibitions

• 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

Notes

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.

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

signature:

As can be seen at near inspection, the canvas is reused:

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.

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