AMEDEO MODIGLIANI (1884-1920)
AMEDEO MODIGLIANI (1884-1920)
AMEDEO MODIGLIANI (1884-1920)
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PROPERTY FROM THE DR. SHELDON G. AND IRMA H. GILGORE COLLECTION OF ITALIAN ART 1850-1925
AMEDEO MODIGLIANI (1884-1920)

Tête et buste

Details
AMEDEO MODIGLIANI (1884-1920)
Tête et buste
pencil on toned paper
11 5⁄8 x 18 ¼ in. (29.8 x 46.9 cm.)
Drawn in 1908
Provenance
Mariska Diederich, Paris (acquired from the artist).
Mr. and Mrs. Sydney G. Biddle, West Chester, Pennsylvania (acquired from the above, by 1956).
Perls Gallery, New York (by 1979).
Private collection, New York.
Borghi & Co., New York.
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, January 1992.
Literature
A. Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Dessins et sculptures, Milan, 1965, pp. 27-28, nos. 8-9 (illustrated, pp. 9-11).
G. Diehl, Modigliani, Lugano, 1969, p. 15.
O. Patani, Amedeo Modigliani: Catalogo generale disegni, 1906-1920, con i disegni provenienti dalla collezione Paul Alexandre, 1906-1914, Milan, 1992, p. 39, no. 7 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Perls Galleries, The Sydney G. Biddle Collection, October-November 1956, no. 30 (illustrated).
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Tokyo, Daimaru Department Store and Osaka, Daimaru Department Store, Modigliani: Love and Nostalgia for Montparnasse, September-November 1979, no. 24.
Liège, Musée Saint-Georges, Modigliani, October-December 1980, p. 98, no. 27 (illustrated, p. 99).
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Amedeo Modigliani, March-June 1981, p. 171, no. 103 (illustrated, p. 170).
Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art and Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Modigliani, July-November 1985, p. 32, no. 4 (illustrated).

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