Amedeo Modigliani

Dr. Paul Alexandre, Paris (acquired directly from the artist before 1914)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Venice, Palazzo Grassi; Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Montreal, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal (& travelling), Modigliani inconnu: Dessins de la Collection Paul Alexandre, 1993, no. 223, illustrated in the catalogue

Noël Alexandre, The Unknown Modigliani, Drawings from the Collection of Paul Alexandre, New York, 1993, no. 99, fig. 223, illustrated in colour p. 276
Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani, Catalogo Generale, Disegni 1906-1920, Milan, 1994, no. 809, illustrated p. 359

Executed on cream laid paper, not laid down, hinged to the mount at the upper two corners and floating in the overmount. There are a few artist's pinholes at the upper two corners, and one to the lower left corner. The sheet has previously been folded in four, there is a diagonal crease to the upper right corner, and a small paper loss to the upper left corner. There is a small area of discolouration to the upper part of the extreme left edge, some paper skinning in places and surface dirt mainly to the extreme edges. This work is in overall fairly good condition, though it would benefit from a light clean. There is a diagramatic illustration on the reverse. Colours: overall fairly accurate in the printed catalogue, though the paper tone is slightly less red in the original.
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