Standing nude with crossed arms - Nu debout - Cariatide - Caryatide

Oil on cardboard? — 1911-12?

Identification

Title

English: Standing nude with crossed arms - Nu debout - Cariatide - Caryatide.

Date

1911-12?

Medium

Oil on cardboard (MR oil on cardboard glued to canvas - Patani oil on cardboard glued to wood)

Dimensions

82,8 × 47.9 cm

Signature

Modigliani - lower right

Present location

Nagoya Art Museum, Japan

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. Paul Alexandre Coll. Paris
2. Gallery Berggruen Paris
3. Perls Galleries, New York (1963-1981?)
4. Private collection Japan
5. Nagoya city art museum, Japan (2018)

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. 5¹
• Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonne, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1956 - no. 18 bis²
• Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - no. 26³
• Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, Garzanti, Milano 1967 - no. 20⁴
• Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, 1968, p.22⁴
• Diehl, Modigliani, Ed. Flamarion. 1969, p. 41⁵
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 470, dated in 1911⁶
• Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 34⁷
• Hall, Modigliani, Phaidon, 1979, pl. 2
• Mann, Modigliani, London, 1980, pl. 74⁸
• Musée de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, p. 105
• Patani, Modigliani. Dipinti e disegni. Incontri Italiani 1900-1920,Mazzotta, 1984⁹
• Roy, Modigliani, Paris, 1985, p. 62¹⁰
• Werner, Modigliani, Harry N. Abrams, NY, 1985,⁴
• p. 22
• Castieu-Barrielle, La vie et l’œuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Courbevoie, 1987, p. 67
• Diehl, Modigliani, Crown Publishers, New York, 1989, p. 27⁵
• Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel, Munich, 1990, p.65¹¹
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - no. 38⁹
• Parisot, Catalogue Raisonné Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 - no. 4/1911¹²
• Monti a cura de R. Chiappini, Catalogue Amedeo Modigliani, Lugano, Skira, 1999
• Krystof, Amedeo Modigliani: The Poetry of Seeing, Taschen Cologne, 2000, p. 24-25¹³
• Wayne, Modigliani & the Artists of Montparnasse, Abrams-Albright-kno× gallery, 2002, p.78¹⁴
• Fraquelli, Modigliani, Fort Worth and Paris, in Burlington Magazine, 145, 2003 pp. 254-255.
• Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004-2005, p. 208¹⁵
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, the timeless face, Libsa, 2007¹⁶

Exhibitions

• Frankfurt, Steinernes Haus, 1963 - no. 5
• New York, Perls galleries, 1963 - no. 2
• New York, The nudes of Modigliani, Perls galleries, 1966 - no. 13
• Tokyo, Modigliani exhibition, Daimaru, 1979, no. 1
• Osaka, Modigliani exhibition, Daimaru, 1979, no. 1
• Liege, Modigliani exhibition. Musée Saint Georges, 1980 - no. 3
• Paris, Modigliani, Musée de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981 - no. 7
• Livorno, Gli anni della scultura, Villa Maria 1984, no. 15
• Verona, Incontri Italiani, Galleria dello Scudo, 1984-1985, no. 16
• Torino, Incontri Italiani, Palazzo Reale, 1984-1985, no. 16
• Tokyo, Modigliani exhibition, National Museum, 1985 - no. 25
• Nagoya, Modigliani exhibition, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, 1985
• Ibaraki, Modigliani et ses Amis, Kasama Nichido Musum of art, 1988 - no. 1
• Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, 1991 - no. 8
• Zurich, Kunsthaus, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, 1991 - no. 8
• Lugano, Amedeo Modigliani, Museo d'Arte Moderna, 1999 - no. 7
• Buffalo NY, Modigliani and the artists of Montparnasse, Albright-Kno× Gallery, 2002-2003 - no. 1
• Fort Worth, Modigliani and the artists of Montparnasse, Kimbell art Museum, 2003 - no. 1
• Los Angeles, Modigliani and the artists of Montparnasse, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2003 - no. 1
• New York, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004
• Toronto, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Art Gallery of Ontario, 2004 - 2005
• Washington D.C., Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Phillips Collection, 2005

Notes

Museum record (verified): Nagoya City Art Museum. Oil on cardboard (or paper mounted on board), 82.8 × 47.9 cm, c. 1911–12. Title: Standing Nude with Crossed Arms / Study for Caryatid.

No further documentary note is recorded in this investigation beyond the fields above. Where sources disagree, both readings are given.