LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

81.3 x 46.4

Description:

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Markings:

signed and dated 'Modigliani 1915'

Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Modigliani, February 1922, no. 15. Providence, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, French Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries, November 1942, no. 42. New York, American British Art Center, Amedeo Modigliani, November-December 1944.Cleveland Museum of Art and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Amedeo Modigliani, January-June 1951, pp. 28 and 51 (illustrated, p. 51; titled Beatrice Hastings [Femme au pendentif]). Palm Beach, Society of the Four Arts and University of Miami, Lowe Gallery, Amedeo Modigliani, January-February 1954, no. 15. New York, Fine Arts Associates, Paintings From The Ritter Foundation, October 1959, no. 9 (illustrated). Arts Club of Chicago; Milwaukee Art Center and Cincinnati Art Museum, Contemporary Arts Center, Amedeo Modigliani, January-May 1959, no. 4 (illustrated). Atlanta Art Association Galleries, The Art of Modigliani: Loan Exhibition from Museums, Collectors and Dealers, March-April 1960, no. 3 (illustrated). Boston, Museum of Fine Arts and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Modigliani, Paintings and Drawings, January-April 1961, pp. 17 and 33, no. 5 (illustrated in color). New York, Perls Galleries, Amedeo Modigliani, October-December 1963, no. 7 (illustrated). New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Collects: Paintings, Watercolors and Sculpture from Private Collections, summer 1968, p. 15, no. 108. New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., Amedeo Modigliani, October-November 1971, no. 8 (illustrated). New York, The Brooklyn Museum, 1971-1972 (on extended loan). Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, Exhibition of Treasured Masterpieces of the 19th Century Painting, September-October 1973. New York, The Jewish Museum; Toronto, The Art Gallery of Ontario and Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Modigliani, Beyond the Myth, May 2004-May 2005, p. 129, no. 9 (illustrated, pl. 44). London, Royal Academy of Arts, Modigliani and his Models, July-October 2006, p. 84, no. 9 (illustrated, p. 85).

Literature:

The Little Review, autumn-winter 1923-1924, p. 79 (illustrated). A. Salmon, Modigliani: Sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris, 1926 (illustrated, pl. 21; titled Femme au chapeau and dated 1918). Kunst und Knstler, vol. 28, no. 9, June 1930, p. 393 (illustrated). A. Pfannstiel, L'art et la vie: Modigliani, Paris, 1929, pp. 6-7 (illustrated, p. 15; titled Femme au pendentif). J. Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, New York, 1954 (illustrated, pl. 31). J.T. Soby, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, New York, 1954, p. 27 (illustrated). A. Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre: Etude critique et catalogue raisonn, Paris, 1956, p. 67, no. 39. A. Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani peintre, suivi des Souvenirs" de Lunia Czechowska

Provenance:

Marcel Bernheim, Paris (by 1922). Baixeras collection, Paris (by 1926, until at least 1929). Stefa and Leon Brillouin, New York (possibly acquired from the above, by 1942). M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (acquired from the above, 25 January 1955). Louis and Gladys Ritter, Scarsdale (acquired from the above, 1 June 1955); sale, Sothebys, New York, 25 October 1972, lot 36. Private collection, Japan (by the late 1970s, then by descent); sale, Christies, New York, 6 November 2002, lot 35. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.