Lot 343
  • 343

AMEDEO MODIGLIANI | Miss Lawler (?) sur scène à la Gaîté-Rochechouart

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 EUR
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Description

  • Amedeo Modigliani
  • Miss Lawler (?) sur scène à la Gaîté-Rochechouart
  • stamped Dr PA and bears the inscription 99 (lower left)
  • pencil on paper
  • 27 x 20 cm; 10 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.

Provenance

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

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, 1993-1996, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Noël Alexandre, Modigliani inconnu, Témoignages, documents et dessins inédits de l'ancienne collection de Paul Alexandre, Brussels, 1993, no. 16, illustrated no. 74 p. 168

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, hinged to the mount in two places with tape along the upper edge and floating in its mount. The sheet is slightly undulating. The left edge is deckled. There is a crease running vertically across the centre of the composition and a few additional minor creases to the upper left and right and lower left corners. There is a tiny nick to the centre of the lower edge. There are a few minor handling marks to the lower part of the composition, possibly original. The sheet is light stained with a few small dots of foxing in places. This work is in overall very good condition.
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