13 1/4 x 10 3/8 ins
The rounded, heart shaped face, broad set oval eyes, smiling mouth and long graceful neck of this head closely relate to Modigliani’s stone carving Head c.1911. Both drawing and sculpture echo features of Khmer heads, which Modigliani would have seen in Paris during this time and was greatly inspired by. Enquire for further details.
The rounded, heart shaped face, broad set oval eyes, smiling mouth and long graceful neck of this head closely relate to Modigliani’s stone carving Head c.1911. Both drawing and sculpture echo features of Khmer heads, which Modigliani would have seen in Paris during this time and was greatly inspired by. Enquire for further details.
Provenance
Paul Alexandre, Paris who acquired it directly from Modigliani.
By descent to the present owner.
Exhibitions
Venice, Palazzo
Grassi, 1993-1994
Tokyo, The Ueno Royal Museum, 1994
Bruges, Centro D’Arte San Giovanni, 1994
Montreal, The Museum of Fine Art, 1996
Rouen, Musée des Beaux Arts, 1996
New York, The Jewish Museum, 2017-2018Livorno, Museo della Citta di Livorno, 2019-2020
Vienna, The Albertina Museum, 2021-2022
Publications
The Unknown Modigliani, by Noël Alexandre, Mercatorfonds, 1993. Page 288 [No. 243]Modigliani Unmasked: Drawings from the Paul Alexandre Collection, Published in conjunction with the exhibition at The Jewish Museum, New York, September 15, 2017 - February 4 2018, Yale University Press. Page 108
Modigliani: The Primitivist Revolution, published in conjunction with the exhibition at The Albertina Museum, Vienna, September 2021 – January 2022, printed by Hirmer. Page 148