Amedeo Modigliani

Léopold Zborowski, Paris

Jonas Netter, Paris

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris

Alex. Reid & Lefevre Ltd., Glasgow and De Hauke & Co., Inc., New York (acquired jointly from the above in 1928) 

Galerie L’Art Moderne, Lucerne

Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 20 June 1935, lot 43 (consigned by the above)

Etienne Bignou, Paris (acquired from the above sale)

Alex. Reid & Lefevre Ltd., London 

Mrs S. Kaye, London (acquired from the above on 29 April 1945)

Alex. Reid & Lefevre Ltd., London (acquired from the above on 5 May 1949)

Mr and Mrs Ralph F. Colin (acquired from the above on 8 June 1949)

Christie’s, New York, Important Modern Works of Art from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Colin, 10 May 1995, lot 23 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

(possibly) Paris, Galerie Berthe Weill, Exposition des peintures et des dessins de Modigliani, 1917

(possibly) Antwerp, Tentoonstelling van Moderne Fransche Kunst, Art Contemporain: Art Français moderne, 1926 (titled Femme au collier)

London, The Lefevre Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Modigliani, 1929, no. 14 (titled Nu au collier and dated 1917)

New York, De Hauke & Co., Inc., Paintings by Amedeo Modigliani, 1929, no. 29, illustrated (titled Seated Nude and dated 1917)

The Arts Club of Chicago, Paintings by Amadeo [sic] Modigliani, 1929, no. 17 (titled Seated Nude)

Brussels, Galerie “Le Centaure,” 30 ans de Peinture Française, 1930, no. 37, illustrated (titled Femme nue au collier and dated 1917)

Glasgow, Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd., XIXth and XXth Century French Painting, 1930, no. 23

New York, Demotte, Inc., Amedeo Modigliani. Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, 1931, no. 8 (titled Nu au collier and dated 1917)

London, Alex. Reid & Lefevre Ltd., Masterpieces by 20th century French Painters, “L’Ecole de Paris”, 1932, no. 21 (titled Nu au collier and dated 1917)

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Modigliani, 1933, no. 38 (titled Nu au collier and dated 1917)

Basel, Kunsthalle, Modigliani, 1934, no. 30, illustrated (titled Nu au collier and dated 1917)

Edinburgh, 7 Charlotte Square, Modigliani: Negro Art, 1937, no. 3 (titled Seated nude and dated 1917)

London, Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd., Amedeo Modigliani, 1938, no. 35 (titled Femme au collier and dated 1917)

London, Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd., The Tragic Painters, 1938, no. 7 (titled Nu au collier and dated 1917)

Montreal, W. Scott & Sons, Paintings by French Masters, Delacroix to Dufy, 1938, no. 21 (titled Nu au collier and dated 1917)

New York, Bignou Gallery, Twentieth Century French Painters and Picasso, 1939, no. 12 (titled Nu au collier and dated 1917)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Selections from Five New York Private Collections, 1951 (titled Nude with Necklace and dated 1917)

New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., The Colin Collection, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, 1960, no. 55, illustrated (titled Nu au collier and dated 1917)

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts and The Los Angeles County Museum, Modigliani: Paintings and Drawings, 1961, no. 22, illustrated (titled Nude with Necklace and dated circa 1917)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paintings from Private Collections, Summer Loan Exhibition, 1962, no. 48 (titled Nude)

New York, Perls Galleries, Amedeo Modigliani, 1963, no. 15, illustrated (titled Nu assis)

New York, Perls Galleries, The Nudes of Modigliani, 1966, no. 6, illustrated in colour (dated 1917)

Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Amedeo Modigliani, 1981, no. 48, illustrated in colour (dated 1917)

Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales (on extended loan 2014-17)

Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Nude: Art from the Tate Collection, 2016-17, n.n., illustrated in colour (dated 1917)

Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales (on extended loan 2017-26)

André Salmon, Modigliani, sa vie et son œuvre, Paris, 1926, pl. 20, illustrated (titled Femme au collier and dated 1918)

Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani, Paris, 1929, p. 41 (titled Nu au collier)

Adolphe Basler, “Modigliani,” Kunst und Künstler, vol. XXVIII, no. 9, June 1930, p. 356, illustrated (titled Halbakt einer Frau)

“Anecdotiques: Modigliani,” Le Centaure, chronique artistique, vol. 4, no. 9-10, June-July 1930, p. 204, illustrated in a photograph of the 1930 exhibition 

Fritz Neugass, “Amadeo [sic] Modigliani,” Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, vol. XXXIV, no. 4, January 1931, p. 239, illustrated (titled Stehender Akt)

Maurice Sachs, “Modigliani The Fated,” Creative Art: A Magazine of Fine & Applied Art, vol. 10, no. 2, February 1932, p. 98, illustrated (titled Nu au Collier)

“Les ventes,” Beaux-Arts, no. 130, June 1935, p. 4 (titled Femme nue au collier de corail)

Giovanni Scheiwiller, Modigliani, Milan, 1932, pl. 9, illustrated (titled Nudo seduto and dated 1917)

“Rich Tastes,” Time, August 1951, p. 79, illustrated in colour

Gotthard Jedlicka, Modigliani, 1884-1920, Zurich, 1953, pl. 29, illustrated (titled Sitzender Akt (Nu au collier) and dated 1918)

Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1956, no. 259, p. 139 (titled Nu au collier)

Ambrogio Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani, Peintre, Milan, 1958, no. 121, pp. 61-62, illustrated (titled Nu assis (au collier) and dated 1917)

“Modern Art: The Distinctive Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Colin,” The Connoisseur, vol. CXLV, issue 585, May 1960, fig. 4, p. 207, illustrated (titled Nude with Necklace and dated 1917)

“Today’s Collectors: Colin and Spingold,” Art News, vol. 59, no. 2, April 1960, p. 32, illustrated (titled Nude with Necklace and dated 1917)

"The Colin Collection", Vogue, 15 April 1960, p. 110, illustrated (titled Nude with Necklace and dated 1917)

Fritz Neugass, “Privatsammlungen in USA.,” Weltkunst, June 1960, p. 13, illustrated (titled Akt mit Halskette and dated 1917)

Alfred Werner, “Nudist of Nudes,” Art Magazine, November 1966, p. 125

Alfred Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, New York, 1966, pp. 124-525, illustrated in colour (titled Nude with Necklace and dated 1917)

Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, Catalogue raisonné, sa vie, son œuvre complet, son art, Barcelona, 1970, no. 213, p. 216, illustrated (dated 1917)

Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, 1970, no. 187, p. 97, illustrated (dated 1917)

Ambrogio Ceroni and Françoise Cachin, Tout l’œuvre peint de Modigliani, Paris, 1972, no. 187, p. 97, illustrated (dated 1917)

Jacques Lassaigne, Tout Modigliani. La peinture, Paris, 1982, no. 187, p. 52, illustrated (dated 1917)

Angela Ceroni, Modigliani, Les nus, Paris, 1989, no. 14, pp. 62-63, illustrated in colour (dated 1917)

Alfred Werner, Modigliani, London, 1990, p. 97, illustrated in colour (dated 1917)

Christian Parisot, Modigliani, Catalogue raisonné, Peintures, Dessins, Aquarelles, vol. II, Rome, 1991, no. 30/1917, p. 166, illustrated (dated 1917); vol. V, Rome, 2012, p. 532, illustrated in colour

Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani, Catalogo Generale, Dipinti, Milan, 1991, no. 190, p. 201, illustrated in colour (dated 1917)

Xavier Narbaïts, “Ventes étranger. Confiance bien tempérée,” Connaissance des Arts, no. 519, July-August 1995, p. 121

Frances Alexander, Amedeo Modigliani, New York, 2000, no. 11, p. 22, illustrated in colour (dated 1917)

Doris Krystof, Amedeo Modigliani: The Poetry of Seeing, Cologne, 2000, p. 61, illustrated in colour (dated 1917)

Frances Alexander and Jane Rogoyska, Modigliani, Rochester, 2005, no. 64, p. 99, illustrated in colour (dated 1917)

Exh. Cat., Rome, Complesso del Vittoriano, Modigliani, 2006, p. 71, fig. 6, illustrated in colour (dated 1917)

Victoria Sota Caba, Modigliani. El rostro intemporal, Madrid, 2008, p. 327, illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., Seoul, Hangaram Art Museum, Modigliani. Legend of Montparnasse, 2015, p. 147, fig. 45, illustrated in colour (dated 1917)

Exh. Cat., Spoleto, Casa Modigliani, Palazzo Montani, Modigliani e l’art nègre. Simbolo, Opere, Tecnologia, 2017, n.p., illustrated in colour (dated 1917)

Thierry Dufrêne, Modigliani, Paris, 2020, p. 235, illustrated in colour (dated 1917)

Exh. Cat., Philadelphia, Barnes Foundation, Modigliani Up Close, 2022-23, p. 126, fig. 2, illustrated in colour (titled Seated Nude with Coral Necklace and dated 1917)

Marc Restellini, Amedeo Modigliani. Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. 4, New Haven and London, 2026, no. 186, p. 203, illustrated in colour