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Amedeo Modigliani

Elvire en buste

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Property from a Private Collection

Amedeo Modigliani

1884-1920

Elvire en buste


indistinctly signed (upper right)

oil on canvas

65,2 x 46,5 cm; 25⅝ x 18¼ in.

Executed circa 1918-1919. 

Léopold Zborowski, Paris

Lunia Czechowska, Paris

Etienne Bignou, Paris

A.J. McNeil Reid (Alex. Reid & Lefevre Gallery), London (by 1929)

Wright Ludington, Santa Barbara (by 1967)

Marlborough Galleria d'Arte, Rome

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1974

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Retrospective Modigliani, 1933, no. 70 (dated 1919)

Basel, Kunsthalle, Modigliani, 1934, no. 61 (dated 1919)

Santa Barbara, Museum of Art, 1967 (on loan)

Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani, Paris, 1929, p. 131, illustrated (titled Torse de fille brune (Elvira) and dated 1919)

Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre: étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1956, no. 334, p. 164 (titled Torse de fille brune (Elvira))

Leone Piccioni and Ambrogio Ceroni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, 1970, no. 271, p. 102, illustrated (titled Busto di Elvira con la camicia abbassata and dated 1918)

Françoise Cachin and Ambrogio Ceroni, Tout l'œuvre peint de Modigliani, Paris, 1972, no. 271, p. 102, illustrated (dated 1918)

Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, Catalogue raisonné: Sa Vie, Son Œuvre complet, son art, Barcelona, 1970, no. 324, p. 129 and p. 245, illustrated (titled Torse de jeune fille (Elvira) and dated 1918)

Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani, Catalogo Generale, Dipinti, Milan, 1991, no. 284, p. 286, illustrated (titled Elvira con la camicia abbassata and dated 1918)

Alain Amiel, Modigliani sur la côte d'Azur entre Nice et Cagnes-sur-Mer, Saint-Laurent-du-Var, 2023, p. 75, illustrated in colour (dated 1918)