LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

23.58 in. (59.90 cm.) (height) by 36.22 in. (92.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed ‘modigliani’ (upper right)

Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie Bing & Cie., Modigliani, October-November 1925. Venice, Giardini della Biennale, La XVII Biennale di Venezia, May-November 1930, no. 1265. Budapest, Mucsarnok, Modern olasz muvészeti kiállítás, January-March 1936, p. 38, no. 314 (illustrated; titled Fekvo noi akt). Galleria di Roma, Omaggio a sedici artisti italiani, 1937, no. 11 (illustrated; titled Nudo). Brussels, Société Auxiliaire des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts, Art Italien Contemporain, January-February 1950, no. 69 (illustrated). Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Figuren uit de Italiaanse kunst na 1910, March-April 1950, no. 70 (illustrated; titled Naakt). Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, Exposition d’Art Moderne Italien, May-June 1950, no. 50. London, Tate Gallery, Modern Italian Art: An Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Held Under the Auspices of The Amici di Brera and The Italian Institute, June-July 1950, p. 13, no. 63 (illustrated, pp. 62-63, pls. 8 and 9; titled Recumbent Nude). Cleveland Museum of Art and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, January-June 1951, p. 52 (illustrated in color, p. 14; titled Nude on a Cushion). Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, Arte moderna in una raccolta italiana, April-May 1953, no. 21 (illustrated, pl. 11; titled Grande nudo). Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, VII Quadriennale nazionale d’arte di Roma, November 1955-April 1956, p. 58, no. 61 (dated 1917 and titled Nudo rosa). Milan, Palazzo Reale, Mostra di Amedeo Modigliani, November-December 1958, p. 26, no. 34 (illustrated in color, pl. 34; dated 1917 and titled Nudo sdraiato). Turin, Civica galleria d’arte moderna, Capolavori d’arte moderna nelle raccolte private, October-December 1959, p. 42, no. 24 (illustrated in color, pl. 3; titled Nudo coricato). Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, Arte Moderna in Italia, 1915-1935, February-May 1967, p. XXIII, no. 446 (illustrated in color, p. 101; dated 1917 and titled Nudo disteso; on the label on the reverse, the dates of the exhibition appear as November 1966-February 1967 and the work is numbered 738). Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco Museum of Art; Detroit Institute of Arts; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art; Boston Museum of Fine Arts and New York, Olivetti, Masters of Modern Italian Art from the Collection of Gianni Mattioli, February 1967-March 1969, no. 69 (illustrated; detail illustrated in color on the cover). Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts; Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Hamburger Kunsthalle; Madrid, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo and Barcelona, Palacio de la Virreina, Mai^tres de l'art moderne en Italie: Collection G. Mattioli, Milan, September 1969-January 1971, p. 68, no. 69 (illustrated). Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art and Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Masters of Modern Italian Art from the Collection of Gianni Mattioli, April-July 1972, p. 126, no. 69 (illustrated, p. 77). Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art, A History of Art in Italy in the Twentieth Century, September-December 2001, no. 20. London, Royal Academy of Arts, Modigliani and His Models, July-October 2006, p. 155, no. 21 (illustrated in color, pp. 100-101; illustrated again in color as a frontispiece; dated 1917 and titled Reclining Nude with Outstretched Arms).

Provenance:

Léopold Zborowski, Paris. Jonas Netter, Paris. Riccardo and Cesarina Gualino, Turin (acquired in Paris, 2 October 1928). Società Anonima Finanziaria, Zaccaria Pisa, Milan; collection sale, Galleria Pesaro, Milan, 5-8 February 1934, lot 185. Pietro Feroldi, Brescia (by 1935). Gianni Mattioli, Milan (acquired from the above, 1949), and thence by descent to the previous owner, 1977. By descent to the present owners, Switzerland, 1987.