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AMEDEO MODIGLIANI (1884-1920)

Lot 9
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ID 1380925
Lot 9 | AMEDEO MODIGLIANI (1884-1920)
Estimate value
£ 4 000 000 – 7 000 000
AMEDEO MODIGLIANI (1884-1920)
Portrait de Lunia Czechowska
signed 'Modigliani' (upper right)
oil on canvas laid on board
18 1/8 x 14 7/8 in. (46 x 37.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1917-1918




Provenance

Walther Halvorsen, Oslo & Paris, by whom probably acquired from the artist.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (no. 22306), by whom acquired from the above on 3 September 1920.
Biassano, by whom acquired from the above on 27 November 1920.
Jos Hessel, Paris, by 1930.
Marcelle Bourdon, Paris, by 1952; her sale, Guy Loudmer, Paris, 25 March 1990, lot 35.
Corporate collection; sale, Briest, Paris, 28 November 1996, lot 33.
Private collection, Europe, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Acquired from the above in 2003, and thence by descent to the present owner.



Literature

A. Pfannstiel, Modigliani, Paris, 1929, pp. 30 & 31 (IX) (dated ‘1918’ and with the dimensions and provenance inverted with 'La belle Polonaise (Lunia Czechowska)' p. 23 (I)).
T. Bernard, 'Jos Hessel' in La Renaissance, Paris, January 1930, p. 19 (illustrated).
A. Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, Paris, 1956, no. 185, p. 117 (with incorrect dimensions and provenance).
A. Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani, Milan, 1958, no. 140, p. 66 (illustrated).
F. Russoli, Amedeo Modigliani, Milan, 1963, no. VII (illustrated).
R. van Gindertael, Modigliani e Montparnasse, Milan, 1967, p. 53 (illustrated pl. XXVII).
A. Ceroni & L. Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, 1970, no. 172, p. 97 (illustrated p. 96; titled ‘Testa di Lunia Czechowska in Fronte’).
J. Lanthemann, Modigliani 1884-1920: Catalogue raisonné, Barcelona, 1970, no. 234, p. 123 (illustrated p. 222).
A. Ceroni & F. Cachin, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Modigliani, Paris, 1972, no. 172, p. 97 (illustrated p. 96).
C. Parisot, Modigliani, Livorno, 1988, p. 159.
C. Parisot, Modigliani: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Livorno, 1991, no. 23/1917, pp. 159 & 309 (illustrated, p. 159; incorrectly catalogued as ‘oil on paper’).
O. Patani, Amedeo Modigliani, Catalogo generale: dipinti, Milan, 1991, no. 177, p. 192 (illustrated; titled ‘Testa di Lunia Czechowska in fronte’ and incorrectly catalogued as 'oil on board').
C. Parisot, Modigliani, Paris, 1992, p. 121 (illustrated).
G.P. & F. Dauberville, Modigliani – Amedeo Modigliani chez Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 2015, no. 5, p. 48 (illustrated p. 49; illustrated again in situ in the 1952 exhibition pp. 26 & 27; titled ‘Portrait de femme ou Madame Tschekowska’).



Exhibited

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, no. 67, p. 13 (dated ‘About 1919’).
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Peintres de portraits, May - June 1952, no. 42.
Bern, Kunsthalle, Modigliani, Campigli, Sironi, August - September 1955, no. 19, p. 7 (titled 'Portrait de femme').
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent tableaux de Modigliani, April - May 1958, no. 67.
Frankfurt, Steirnernes Haus, Amedeo Modigliani, June - July 1963, no. 21 (illustrated).
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Modigliani, June - October 1990, no. 73, pp. 146, 147 & 225 (illustrated pp. 146 & 225; incorrectly catalogued as 'oil on board').
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