Amedeo Modigliani
Cariatide de face, bras croisés, tête surmontée d'un chapiteau
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Amedeo Modigliani
1884 - 1920
Cariatide de face, bras croisés, tête surmontée d'un chapiteau
stamped with the collector's mark and bears the number 29.8 (lower left)
pen and ink on squared paper
21.1 by 13.6cm., 8¼ by 5⅜in.
Framed: 40 by 32cm., 15¾ by 12⅝in.
Drawn before April 1913.
Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down and attached to the mount with Japanese paper strips along all four edges on the reverse. The right edge of the sheet is unevenly cut. There are pinholes to the centre of the upper edge and a further pinhole in the upper right corner. There is some minor creasing to the lower right corner. The sheet is time-stained and there is some faint media staining, handling marks and minor foxing in places. The work is in overall very good condition.
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