
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Seated Nude
Amedeo Modigliani · 1918
Provenance
Ownership history
- Jeanne Modigliani, Florence, by inheritance, 1920–at least 1932 [Patani 1992, Giovanni Treccani Institute 1932]. Count Contini, Florence, by 1945 [Florence 1945]. Sold by Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, New York, to the Art Institute, 1951.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Venice Biennale, 1930, cat. 1132.
- Florence, "La peinture française à Florence," February 1945, pp. 98, pl. CIV (ill.), cat. 222, as Dessin.
- New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 158, pl. L.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake," April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 51 (ill.).
- Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Drawings from the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23–May 14, 1972.
- Palm Beach, Fla., Society of Four Arts, "Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," January 5–27, 1974, cat. 33.
- Chicago, Spertus Museum of Art, "Jewish Artists of the 20th Century: A Survey," October 5, 1975–January 1976, n.p., (ill.), cat. 39.
- Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordheim-Westfalen, "Amedeo Modigliani," January 19–April 1, 1991, pp. 179 and 225, cat. 186, pl. 132; traveled to the Kunsthaus, Zurich, April 19–July 7, 1991.
- New York, Jewish Museum, "Modigliani: Beyond the Myth," May 21–September 19, 2004, pp. 179 and 211, pl. 123; traveled to the Art Gallery of Ontario, October 23, 2004–January 23, 2005; and Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, February 19–May 29, 2005.
Literature
Published references
- Lamberto Vitali, Disegni di Modigliani (Milan, 1929), n.p., (ill.).
- Arthuir Pfannstiel, L'Art et la Vie Modigliani (Paris, 1929), pp. 60 and 70 (ill.).
- Giovanni Treccani Institute, Enciclopedia Italiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti XIII (Milan, 1932), p. 12 (ill.), as Nudo di donna Firenze.
- A. Frankfurter, "Il Bon Disegno from Chicago," Art News XIII (November 1963), p. 30.
- J. Lanthemann, Modigliani (Barcelona, 1970), pp. 151, 366 (ill.), cat. 904, dated 1917.
- Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani: Catalogo Generale, Sculture e Disegni 1909–1914 2 (Milan, 1992), p. 253 (ill.), cat. 451, as Nudo femminile seduto.
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