RICHARD  NATHANSON

Amedeo Modigliani

1884 - 1920

Standing Female Nude Figure c.1908

Black crayon, stamped with the Paul Alexandre collection mark.

16 ¾ x 10.5 7/8 inches;  43 x 26.7cms. 

Provenance:  Dr Paul Alexandre, Paris, to whom it was given by Modigliani.

                         By descent to the present owner.

Reproduced: Full page, The Unknown Modigliani, by Noël Alexandre,

                        Page 313 [no. 274], Fonds Mercator, 1993.

The above book, written by Paul Alexandre’s youngest son Noël, is dedicated:

To my friend Richard Nathanson whose enthusiasm and artistic sensibility have encouraged me
to publish this account.

Exhibited:       Modigliani Drawings from The Collection of Paul  Alexandre at;

                         Venice,     Palazzo Grassi, 1993 - 1994.

                         Tokyo,      Ueno Royal Museum,1994.

                         Bruges,     Centro d’Arte San Giovanni, 1994.       

                         Montréal,  Museum of Fine Art, 1996.                       

                         Rouen,      Musée des Beaux Arts, 1996.

                                           St Tropez, Musée L’Annonciade, Modigliani, July- October 2010.

This drawing is among the most lyrical yet forceful of the 1908 studies reproduced in Noël Alexandre’s The Unknown Modigliani. It relates to Modigliani’s first two known nude paintings, both painted in 1908. Nu Assis above. And Nu au Chapeau below.

The curve of the body and positioning of the left leg give the drawing its particular strength and grace. Its movement and stillness.

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