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Diego Rivera
Inscriptions
Signed recto, along bottom, in pen and brown ink: "Modigliani"; inscribed along top left, in pen and brown ink: "Diego Rivera"
Provenance
Kraushaar Gallery, New York [according to E.V. Thaw invoice in curatorial file]. Thomas Edward Hanley (died 1969), Bradford, Penn., by 1957 [Philadelphia 1957]. Sold by E. V. Thaw and Company, New York, to Mrs. Wesley Dixon, Jr., Lake Forest, Ill., November 15, 1966 [invoice]; given to the Art Institute, 1967.
Exhibition history
Philadelphia, Museum of Art, "T. Edward Hanley Collection," 1957, no cat. Buffalo, N.Y., Albright Art Gallery, "The T. Edward Hanley Collection," January 6–February 14, 1960, n.p., cat. 130. New York, Wildenstein Galleries, "Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings from the Hanley Collection," November 22–December 30, 1961, p. 13, cat. 92; traveled to Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, January 24–April 15, 1962. Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, "Amedeo Modigliani: 1884–1920," March 26–June 28, 1981, p. 190 (ill.), cat. 143, dated, 1914. Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordheim-Westfalen, "Amedeo Modigliani: Maleriei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen," January 19–April 1, 1991, p. 224 cat. 145, dated 1914; traveled to Zurich, Kunsthaus, April 19–July 7, 1991.
Publications
Douglas Hall, Modigliani (Oxford, 1984), p. 31, fig. 20 (ill.), dated 1914. Claude Roy, Modigliani (New York, 1985), pp. 38 (ill.), 155, dated 1914. Neal Benezra, “A Study in Irony: Modigliani’s Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz,” Museum Studies 12: 2 (1986), pp. 195 and 196–97, fig. 13, dated c. 1914. Thérèse Castieu-Barrielle, La vie et l’oeuvre de Amedeo Modigliani (Paris, 1987), p. 112 (ill.), dated 1914. Christian Parisot, Modigliani: Catalogue raisonné, dessins, aquarelles 1 (Livorno, 1990), pp. 267 (ill.), 345, cat. 23/14. Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani: Catalogo generale, disegni 1906–1920 3 (Milan, 1994), p. 44 (ill.), cat. 14, dated 1914.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Amedeo Modigliani / Italian, 1884-1920
- Date
- 1915
- Medium
- Pen and brown and black ink, over graphite on tan wove paper, laid down on buff wove card
- Dimensions
- 26.6 × 20.7 cm (10 1/2 × 8 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Wesley M. Dixon, Jr.
- Accession no.
- 1967.35
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