Lot 12
  • 12

Amedeo Modigliani

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 EUR
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Description

  • Amedeo Modigliani
  • Femme nue de trois quarts vers la droite, vue jusqu'à mi-jambes, la jambe gauche croisée devant la jambe droite (recto)Femme nue debout de face, légèrement tournée vers la droite, les mains sur la tête, la jambe gauche croisée devant la jambe droite (verso)
  • stamped DE P.A. and numbered 56 (lower right) 
  • wax crayon on paper
  • 42.2 x 27.7 cm ; 16 5/8 x 10 7/8 in.

Provenance

Dr Paul Alexandre, Paris (acquired from the artist)
Thence by descent

Exhibited

Venice, Palazzo Grassi; London, The Royal Academy of Arts (travelling exhibition also passing through Cologne, Madrid, Bruges, Tokyo, Luxembourg, New York, Montreal & Rouen), Modigliani inconnu : Dessins de la Collection Paul Alexandre, 1993-96, no. 244-246

Literature

Noël Alexandre, Modigliani inconnu, Témoignages, documents et dessins inédits de l'ancienne collection de Paul Alexandre, Paris, 1993, no. 244-246, illustrated pl. 277-279, p. 316
Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani, Catalogo Generale, Disegni 1906-1920 con i disegni provenienti dalla collezione Paul Alexandre (1906-1914), Milan, 1994, no. 634-635, illustrated p. 317
Christian Parisot, Modigliani, Catalogue raisonné, Rome, 2006, no. 17/08, illustrated p. 70 (verso)

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, floating in the mount, fixed at the upper corners. The sheet has a perforated line running vertically 1cm from the left edge, with a vertical flattened fold running parallel, 3mm from the edge. Another flattened fold runs diagonally from the centre of the right edge towards the lower left corner. There are scattered minor nicks and scuffs to the edges of the sheet. Apart from some mild creasing and scattered indentations overall and a tiny spot of foxing in the upper right, this work is in good condition.
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