Large red bust - le grand bustee rouge - Leopold II

Oil on cardboard?— 1913

Date1913
MediumOil on cardboard?
Size81.5 x 51 cm
CollectionPrivate Collection ?
SignatureSigned "Modigliani / 21 march 013" in bottom right ?
Investigation76

Identification

Title
English: Large red bust - le grand bustee rouge - Leopold II (verso study for cariatide, actually apart, don’t know how???).
Date
1913
Medium
Oil on cardboard
Dimensions
81.5 x 51 cm
Signature
Signed "Modigliani / 21 march 013" in bottom right ?
Present location
Private Collection ?

Catalogue numbers

Compiler Number
Arthur PfannstielNO
Joseph LanthemannNO
Ambrogio CeroniNO
Jeanne ModiglianiNO
Christian Parisot?
Osvaldo PataniNO
Modigliani Project?
MRYES
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

  1. Netter Collection (2002)
  2. Gallery Cazeau-Beraudiere, Paris ( 2006)
  3. Private Coll. ?

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.

Exhibitions

Notes

Not in D' Atri papers

Image while at exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum

the verso painting:

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

cariatide amedeo modigliani
cariatide amedeo modigliani
Large red bust - le grand bustee rouge - Leopold II (verso study for cariatide, actually apart, don’t know how???)
Reproduction published in the documentation assembled for this investigation.
Large red bust - le grand bustee rouge - Leopold II (verso study for cariatide, actually apart, don’t know how???)
Reproduction published in the documentation assembled for this investigation.

Footnotes

  1. MR (cited here as MR), Modigliani: l’ange au visage grave, Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002. Cited from the published exhibition catalogue only.
  2. Mason Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, New York, The Jewish Museum / Yale University Press, 2004.
  3. Simonetta Fraquelli et al., Modigliani and His Models, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 2006.
  4. Victoria Soto Caba, Modigliani: The Timeless Face, Madrid, Libsa, 2007.