View full screen - View 1 of Lot 184. Standing female nude, frontal view, three-quarter length, opening her arms or a veil - recto. Study of head, leaning to right - verso.

Property from the Levett Collection

Amedeo Modigliani

Standing female nude, frontal view, three-quarter length, opening her arms or a veil - recto. Study of head, leaning to right - verso

Estimate

26,000 - 34,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Levett Collection

Amedeo Modigliani

1884 - 1920


Standing female nude, frontal view, three-quarter length, opening her arms or a veil - recto

Study of head, leaning to right - verso

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

crayon on paper (recto)

sanguine on paper (verso)

42.7 by 27.5 cm. 16¾ by 10⅞ in.

Framed: 67 by 49.9 cm. 26⅜ by 19⅝ in.

Dr Paul Alexandre, Paris (acquired from the artist)

Private Collection, Belgium (by descent from the above)

Richard Nathanson, London

Acquired from the above in 2008 by the present owner

Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani. Catalogo Generale Disegni 1906-1920, Milan, 1994, nos. 792 and 981, pp. 354 and 403, illustrated (titled Nudo femminile in piedi di fronte (recto) and dated 1910-1914)

Mark Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, no. 31, p. 327, recto illustrated in colour (titled Figure with Wing-like Arms (recto), head turned to right (verso) and dated circa 1908)

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, nos. 300 and 346, cat. 231, pp. 326, 365 and 458, illustrated in colour

London, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, Modigliani: A Unique Artistic Voice, 2015, pp. 42-43, illustrated in colour (titled Female Nude with Wing-like Arms (recto), Head Leaning to Right (verso) and dated circa 1910)

New York, The Jewish Museum, Modigliani unmasked, 2017-18, n.n., pp. 64-65, illustrated in colour (titled Female Nude with Wing-like Arms (recto), Head Leaning to Right (verso) and dated circa 1910)

Mougins, Musée d'Art Classique, 2011-23 (extended loan)