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Portrait of Paul Alexandre
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and black ink: "A105" or "4,05" [?]
Provenance
The artist to Paul Alexandre, Paris; by descent within the Alexandre family; sold, Sotheby’s, London, Dec. 8, 1999, lot 216, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Venice, Palazzo Grassi,"The Unknown Modigliani: Drawings from the Collection of Paul Alexandre, 1993–1996," cat. 410, cat. 334 (ill.); also London, Cologne, Madrid, New York, Florence, Montreal, and Rouen. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 163, cat. 116 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," March 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.
Publications
Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani, Catalogo Generale, Disegni, 1906-1920 con i disegni provenienti dalla collezione Paul Alexandre (Milan, 1994), p. 350, cat. 776. Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago, 2006), p. 163, cat. 116 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Amedeo Modigliani / Italian, 1884–1920
- Date
- c. 1909
- Medium
- Black fabricated chalk on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 19.9 × 27 cm (7 7/8 × 10 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- 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.
- 2013.982
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