Portrait of Vallin

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1918

Amedeo Modigliani
Italian, 1884-1920

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Amedeo Modigliani
Title: Portrait of Vallin
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1918
Medium: Graphite on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower left, in graphite: "263"; "à / Vallin / modigliani"
Dimensions: 41.7 × 27.2 cm (16 7/16 × 10 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1998.727
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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.

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.

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

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