About This Artwork
Amedeo Modigliani
Italian, 1884-1920
Head of Anatolia1900/20
Pen and brown ink, with graphite on tan wove paper
313 x 234 mm
Signed lower right, in pen and brown ink: "MODIGLIANI; inscribed lower left, in pen and brown ink: "ANATOLIA"
Gift of Robert Allerton, 1924.804
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Lent from American Collections," June 1–November 1, 1933, p. 101, cat. 1037.
Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordheim-Westfalen, "Amedeo Modigliani: Maleriei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen," January 19, 1991–April 1, 1991, p. 224, cat. 160, as Bilniszeichnung Anatolia, c. 1915; traveled to Zurich, Kunsthaus, April 19–July 7, 1991.
Ownership History
Given by Robert Allerton (1873-1964), Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1924.