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Portrait of Vallin
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower left, in graphite: "263"; "à / Vallin / modigliani"
Provenance
Probably given by the artist to Vallin [inscription]. Eric Estorick (1913–1993), London, by April 1960 [Eindhoven 1960]. Roland, Browse and Delbanco Gallery, London [Milan 1961 auct. cat.]. Sold, Finarte, Milan, November 22, 1961, lot 115. Lester Avnet (died 1970), New York [correspondence in curatorial file]. Harkus Krakow Gallery, Boston, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg; give to the Art Institute, 1998
Exhibition history
Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbe Museum, "De Estorick verzameling van moderne italiaanse kunst," April–May 1960, cat. 54. Wellesley, Mass., Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley College, May 1974. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings from the Dorothy Braude Edinburg Collection," June 11–September 7, 1999.
Publications
Osvaldo Patani, Modigliani: Disegni (Edizioni Della Sggiola, 1976), p. 135, cat. 69 (ill.). Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani: Catalogo Generale III (Milan, 1994), p. 242, cat. 426 (ill.). Mason Klein (editor), Modigliani: Beyond the Myth exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn, 2005), p. 185 (ill.), as Bénito [sic], cat. only.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Amedeo Modigliani / Italian, 1884-1920
- Date
- 1918
- Medium
- Graphite on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 41.7 × 27.2 cm (16 7/16 × 10 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1998.727
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