“ There Is Only One Painter of the Modern Nude.”
“ There is only one painter of the modern nude.” ANDRÉ SALMON 98 SOTHEBY’S 100 SOTHEBY’S A MASTERWORK BY MODIGLIANI THE PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTOR 18 Ⴜ AMEDEO MODIGLIANI 1884 - 1920 Nu couché (sur le côté EXHIBITED gauche) Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Modigliani, 1933, no. 15 (titled Grand nu couché and dated 1916) Signed Modigliani (lower left) Oil on canvas Basel, Kunsthalle, Rétrospective Modigliani, 1934, no. 7 (dated 1916) 35¼ by 57¾ in.; 89.5 by 146.7 cm Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Cinquante ans de peinture française dans les Painted in 1917. collections particulières de Cézanne et Matisse, 1952, no. 114 (titled Nu couché) Estimate Upon Request Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Le Nu à travers les Ages, 1954, no. 40 (titled Grand nu couché) Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent tableaux de Modigliani, 1958, no. 63, illustrated PROVENANCE in the catalogue (titled Grand nu) Léopold Zborowski, Paris (acquired from the Marseille, Musée Cantini, Modigliani, 1958, no. 21, illustrated in color in the artist) catalogue (titled Grand nu and dated 1918) Jonas Netter, Paris (acquired by 1926) Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Amedeo Modigliani 1884-1920, Private Collection, Paris (by descent from the 1981, no. 53, illustrated in color in the catalogue above) Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Les Peintres de Zborowski: Modigliani, Private Collection, United States (acquired Utrillo, Soutine et leurs amis, 1994, no. 19, illustrated in color in the catalogue from the above and sold: Christie’s, New York, London, Tate Modern, Modigliani, 2017-18, n.n., illustrated in color in the November 4, 2003, lot 29) catalogue and on the cover (titled Nude) Acquired at the above sale 102 SOTHEBY’S LITERATURE Antoine Salmon, Modigliani: sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris, 1926, illustrated, pl.
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