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Property from the Levett Collection

Amedeo Modigliani

Male caryatid, frontal view, three-quarter length, hands behind his head

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Levett Collection

Amedeo Modigliani

1884 - 1920


Male caryatid, frontal view, three-quarter length, hands behind his head

stamped with the Paul Alexandre collector's mark (lower right)

blue crayon on paper

33.8 by 26.5 cm. 13⅜ by 10½ in.

Framed: 54.7 by 47 cm. 21½ by 18½ in.

Dr Paul Alexandre, Paris (acquired from the artist)

Private Collection, Belgium (acquired by descent from the above)

Caroline Wiseman Modern and Contemporary, London

Acquired from the above in 2008 by the present owner

Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani. Catalogo Generale Disegni 1906-1920, Milan, 1994, no. 968, p. 400, illustrated (dated 1913-14)

Mark Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, no. 30, p. 326, illustrated in colour (titled Male Caryatid, Hands behind his Head and dated circa 1911)

Venice, Palazzo Grassi; London, The Royal Academy of Art; Cologne, Museum Ludwig; Bruges, Oud Sint-Jan Kunstcentrum; Tokyo, The Ueno Royal Museum; Lisbon, Culturgest; Montreal, Musée des Beaux-Arts and Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Modigliani. Drawings from the Collection of Paul Alexandre, 1993-96, no. 139, cat. 89, pp. 218 and 453, illustrated in colour

London, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, Modigliani: A Unique Artistic Voice, 2015, n.n., pp. 58-59, illustrated in colour (titled Male Caryatid, Hands behind his Head and dated circa 1911)

New York, The Jewish Museum, Modigliani unmasked, 2017-18, n.n., p. 88, illustrated in colour (titled Male Caryatid and dated 1911-12)

Brussels, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brancusi. Sublimation of Form, 2019-20, fig. 30, cat. 58, pp. 78 and 217, illustrated in colour (titled Male Caryatid, Hands behind his Head and dated 1911)

Mougins, Musée d'Art Classique, 2021-23 (extended loan)