LOT DETAILS

Materials:

black crayon on paper

Size Notes:

42.9 by 26.3cm., 16? by 10?in.

Edition:

Executed circa 1911-14.

Description:

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Markings:

stamped with the collector's mark and bears the number 24,9 (lower left)

Condition:

Framed: 62.5 by 51cm., 24? by 20?in. Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down and attached to the mount at each corner and floating in the overmount. The left edge is serrated. There is an artist's pinhole to the lower right corner and a tiny surface accretion to the upper right corner. There are some handling creases in places and a flattened fold to the lower right corner. The sheet is slightly time stained and there are some spots of foxing in places. This work is in overall very good condition.

Literature:

Noël Alexandre, The Unknown Modigliani, Drawings from the Collection of Paul Alexandre, New York, 1993, no. 115, fig. 221, illustrated in colour p. 275

Provenance:

Paul Alexandre, Paris (acquired from the artist) Noël Alexandre, France (by descent from the above) Richard Nathanson, London (probably acquired from the above) Private Collection, UK (acquired from the above in 2005) Trinity House Paintings (acquired from the above) Acquired from the above by the present owner