Lot 21
  • 21

Amedeo Modigliani

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 EUR
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Description

  • Amedeo Modigliani
  • FEMME NUE ÉTENDUE SUR LE CÔTÉ
  • porte le cachet de Paul Alexandre DR P A 65 (en bas au centre)
  • crayon gras sur papier
  • 26,5 x 43 cm; 10 3/8 x 16 7/8 in.

Provenance

Dr Paul Alexandre, Paris (acquis de l'artiste avant 1914)
Par descendance au propriétaire actuel

Exhibited

Venise, Palazzo Grassi; Londres, The Royal Academy of Arts (exposition itinérante passant également par Cologne, Madrid, New York, Florence, Montréal & Rouen), Modigliani inconnu : Dessins de la Collection Paul Alexandre, 1993-96, no. 258, reproduit p. 345

Literature

Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani, Catalogo Generale, Disegni 1906-1920 con i disegni provenienti dalla collezione Paul Alexandre (1906-1914), Milan, 1994, no. 655, reproduit p. 322

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down. The sheet is floating in the mount. The sheet is hinged to the mount at the two top corners. Apart from six flattened-creases runnning diagonally toward the two lower corners, some minor spots of foxing and some light time staining, this work is in good original condition.
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Catalogue Note

bears the Paul Alexandre stamp 'DR P A 65' (lower centre), crayon on paper. Executed circa 1908.

Fig. 1  Amedeo Modigliani, Nu couché, 1917, Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, Osaka