Literature
As an image, Nu couché has been published so extensively and in such a wide range of publications that we thought it wise to limit the below list to the most relevant technical bibliography.
G. da Verona, Azyadèh, la donna pallida, Florence, 1928.
A. Pfannstiel, L’Art et la vie: Modigliani, Paris, 1929, p. 25/IV.
G. Chessa, “Per Amedeo Modigliani” in L’Arte, vol. XXXIII, no. 1, Turin, January 1930, p. 40 (illustrated, fig. 6).
G. da Verona, I promessi sposi, Milan, 1930.
L. Venturi, “The Collection of Modern Art of Signor Gualino and the Modigliani Room at the Venice Biennial Exhibition” in Formes, no. 7, July 1930 (illustrated opposite p. 9; titled Nude).
M. Guerrisi, La nuova pittura: Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, Derain, De Chirico, Modigliani, Turin, 1932 (illustrated, pl. 17; titled Nudo).
G. Scheiwiller, Amedeo Modigliani, Milan, 1935 (illustrated in color; titled Nudo).
R. Huyghe, French Painting: The Contemporaries, New York, 1939 (illustrated, pl. 63; titled Nude on Divan).
P. Piovene, La raccolta Feroldi, Milan, 1942 (illustrated in color, pl. 43; titled Nudo).
Amedeo Modigliani, Jules Pascin, Chaïm Soutine, Tel Aviv, 1944 (illustrated, pl. 7; titled Nude).
C. Carrà, Artisti Moderni: con una lettra di Massimo Bontempelli, Florence, 1944, pp. 86-88.
R. Franchi, Modigliani, Florence, 1944, p. 52 (illustrated in color, pl. XXX; titled Nudo rosso).
R. Carrieri, 12 opere di Amedeo Modigliani, Milan, 1947 (illustrated in color, pl. 8; titled Nudo).
H.F. Kraus, ed., Modern Italian Painters: Campigli, Carra, Sironi, De Chirico, Modigliani, Garbari, Guidi, Marussig, De Pisis, Morandi, Englewood, New Jersey, 1947 (illustrated in color, pl. 5).
P. Piovene, La raccolta Feroldi, 2nd edition, Milan, 1947 (illustrated in color, pl. 17; titled Nudo rosso).
G. da Verona, Le canzoni di sempre e di mai di ieri e di domani, Milan, 1947.
L. Venturi, Pittura contemporanea, Milan, 1948, p. 68 (illustrated, pl. 153; dated 1918 and titled Nudo di donna).
U. Apollonio, “Amedeo Modigliani” in Cahiers d'art: Un demi-siècle d'art italien, vol. 25, no. 1, Paris, 1950 (illustrated, p. 167).
R. Carrieri, Pittura scultura d'avanguardia in Italia, Milan, 1950 (illustrated, p. 93, pl. 104; titled Nudo).
D. Cogniat, Orientations de la peinture française de David à Picasso, Nice, 1950 (illustrated, pl. 131; titled Nu).
G. Marchiori, Modigliani: Sei tavole a colori, Milan, 1950 (illustrated in color; titled Nudo).
G. Scheiwiller, Amedeo Modigliani, Milan, 1950 (illustrated, pl. 9; dated 1917 and titled Nudo).
M. Cinotti, La Femme nue par les peintres, Paris, 1951 (illustrated, pl. 43; illustrated on the cover; titled Nu au divan).
P. Descargues, Amedeo Modigliani, Paris, 1951 (illustrated, pl. 4; titled Nu au divan).
J. Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, New York, 1952 (illustrated in color, p. 15; titled Nude on a Cushion).
M. Valsecchi, 24 dipinti in una raccolta d’arte moderna, Milan, 1952 (illustrated in color, pl. 8; titled Nudo).
R. Benet, Simbolismo, Barcelona, 1953 (illustrated, pl. 227; titled Desnudo rojo).
F. Carco, L'ami des peintres, Paris, 1953 (illustrated; titled Nu).
G. Jedlicka, Modigliani, Zürich, 1953 (illustrated in color, pl. 32).
J. Lipchitz, Modigliani, New York, 1953 (illustrated in color, pl. 10; titled Nude on a Cushion).
P. D’Ancona, Modigliani, Chagall, Soutine, Pascin: Some Aspects of Expressionism, Milan, 1954 (illustrated in color, p. 11; titled Nude).
P. Descargues, Amedeo Modigliani, Paris, 1954 (illustrated, pls. 4 and 54-55; dated 1917 and titled Nu au divan).
J. Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, New York, 1954 (illustrated in color, pls. 33-34; titled Nude on a Cushion).
G. Castelfranco and M. Valsecchi, Pittura e scultura italiane dal 1910 al 1930, Rome, 1956, p. 96 (illustrated, pl. XCVIII; titled Nudo rosa).
A. Chastel, L’art italien, Paris, 1956, vol. II (illustrated, pl. CXXV; titled Nu).
A. Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre: Étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1956, p. 104, no. 152 (illustrated, pl. 48; titled Nu au divan and Nu couché (les mains derrière la tête)).
M. Garland, The Changing Face of Beauty: Four Thousand Years of Beautiful Women, London, 1957, p. 178 (illustrated).
J.A. Cartier, Modigliani: Nus, Paris, 1958 (illustrated in color, pl. 3).
A. Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre, Milan, 1958, pp. 62-63, no. 124 (illustrated in color, pl. 124).
C. Roy, Modigliani, Geneva, 1958, p. 132 (illustrated in color, p. 82; dated circa 1917).
G. Scheiwiller, Amedeo Modigliani, Zürich, 1958 (illustrated, pl. 51; dated 1917).
F. Russoli, Modigliani, Milan, 1963 (detail illustrated in color, pl. VIII; titled Nudo rosso).
Arte italiano contemporaneo desde 1910, exh. cat., Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 1966, pp. 48 and 108 (titled Desnudo rosa and Nudo rosa).
A. Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, Paris, 1968, p. 132 (illustrated in color, p. 133; titled Nu sur un cousin).
G. Diehl, Modigliani, New York, 1969, p. 92 (illustrated; dated circa 1918).
C. Géza, Modigliani, Budapest, 1969, p. 28, no. 25 (illustrated in color; titled Rózsaszínu akt).
R. van Gindertael, Modigliani e Montparnasse, Milan, 1969, p. 47 (illustrated, pl. XXI).
A. Ceroni and L. Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, 1970, p. 98, no. 198 (illustrated; illustrated in color, pls. XXXVI-XXXVII; illustrated in situ at the Galerie Bing, 1925, p. 86; dated 1917 and titled Nudo sdraiato, a braccia aperte).
J. Lanthemann, Modigliani: Catalogue raisonné, Barcelona, 1970, p. 118, no. 166 (illustrated p. 204; dated 1916).
F. Cachin and A. Ceroni, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Modigliani, Paris, 1972, p. 98, no. 198 (illustrated; illustrated in color, pls. XXXVI-XXXVII; illustrated in situ at Galerie Bing & Cie., 1925, p. 86; detail illustrated in color on the dust jacket; dated 1917 and titled Nu couché, les bras ouverts).
R. Guttuso, Mestiere di Pittore: Scritti sull'arte e la società, Bari, 1972, p. 175 (titled Nudo).
G.C. Argan, Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts 1880-1940, Berlin, 1977 (illustrated in color, pl. LVIII; titled Liegender weiblicher Akt).
C. Mann, Modigliani, London, 1980, p. 146 (illustrated in color, no. 104; dated 1917).
Modigliani, exh. cat., Musée Saint-Georges, Liège, 1980, p. 38, no. 30 (illustrated; dated 1917 and titled Nu au divan).
B. Zurcher, Modigliani, Paris, 1980, p. 31 (illustrated in color, pl. 64; dated 1917 and titled Nu couché, les bras ouverts).
Dagli ori antichi agli anni Venti: Le collezioni di Riccardo Gualino, exh. cat., Galleria Sabauda, Turin, 1982, p. 28 (illustrated, p. 29; titled Nudo rosso).
Modigliani: 1884-1920, exh. cat., Centre Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, 1983, p. 53 (illustrated in situ at the Galerie Bing, 1925).
C. Roy, Modigliani, Paris, 1985, p. 158 (illustrated in color, p. 102; dated 1917 and titled Nu couché, les bras ouverts).
T. Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l'œuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Paris, 1987, p. 154 (illustrated in color; dated circa 1917 and titled Nu couché, les bras ouverts).
C. Parisot, Modigliani, Livorno, 1988, p. 138 (illustrated in color; dated 1917 and titled Nudo rosso).
A. Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Les nus, Düdingen/Guin, 1989, p. 80, no. 23 (illustrated in color, p. 81; dated 1917 and titled Nu couché, les bras ouverts).
V.B. Mann, ed., Gardens and Ghettos: The Art of Jewish Life in Italy, exh. cat., The Jewish Museum, New York, 1989, p. 180 (titled Nudo rosso (The Red Nude)).
Morandi e Milano, exh. cat., Palazzo Reale, Milan, 1990 (illustrated, fig. 4).
Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, exh. cat., Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 1991, p. 221, no. 58 (illustrated in color, p. 46, pl. 6; dated 1917 and titled Akt).
C. Parisot, Modigliani: Catalogue raisonné: Peintures, dessins, aquarelles, Livorno, 1991, vol. II, pp. 318-319, no. 47/1917 (illustrated in color, p. 183; dated 1917, titled Nu couché les bras ouverts and with incorrect provenance).
O. Patani, Amedeo Modigliani: Catalogo generale dipinti, Milan, 1991, p. 216, no. 206 (illustrated in color, pp. 216-217; dated 1917, titled Nudo sdraiato a braccia aperte (Nudo rosso) and with incorrect exhibition history).
M.M. Lamberti, “Lionello Venturi e la pittura a Torino, 1919-1931” in Arte in Piemonte, Turin, 2000, no. XIV, pp. 43-45 and 333 (illustrated in color, pl. 27; dated 1917 and titled Nudo rosso).
F. Fergonzi, ed., The Mattioli Collection: Masterpieces of the Italian Avant-garde, exh. cat., Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 2003, pp. 36, 38, 52, 60, 75 and 95 (titled Red Nude and dated 1917).
A. Masoero, B. Marconi and F. Matitti, L’officina del mago: L’artista nel suo atelier, exh. cat., Palazzo Cavour, Turin, 2003, no. XIV, p. 152 (illustrated; dated 1917 and titled Nudo rosso).
E. Braun, "The Faces of Modigliani: Identity Politics Under Fascism" in M. Klein, ed., Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, exh. cat., The Jewish Museum, New York, 2004, pp. 32 and 40 (illustrated in color, fig. 7; dated 1917 and titled Nude (Nu couché, les bras ouverts) and Nudo (Red Nude)).
C. Parisot, Amedeo Modigliani: Une vie en image, Paris, 2007, p. 210 (illustrated in color; dated 1917 and titled Nu rouge).