A Woman

Amedeo Modigliani Italian, 1884-1920
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Modern, Level 2, North Wing

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About the Artwork

A Woman

1917-1920

Amedeo Modigliani

1884-1920

Italian

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Oil on canvas

Unframed: 23 3/4 × 18 1/4 inches (60.3 × 46.4 cm) Framed: 31 1/2 × 26 × 2 5/8 inches (80 × 66 × 6.7 cm)

Paintings

European Modern Art to 1970

City of Detroit Purchase

26.16

Public Domain

Markings

Signed, upper right: Modigliani

Provenance

Leopold Zborowski collection, Paris, France.
By 1926, (New Gallery, New York, USA);
February 18, 1926-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Bulletin of the DIA 12, 1 (1930): p. 9 (ill.).

Valentiner, W.R. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Modern French Painting. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts, 1931, probably p. 20, cat. 81.

Amedeo Modigliani 1884-1920. Exh. cat., Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute. San Antonio, 1957, no. 1.

Masterpieces of Art in Memory of W. R. Valentiner. Exh. cat., North Carolina Museum of Art. Raleigh, 1959, pp. 177, 204, no. 117 (ill.).

Modigliani. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, 1961, no. 20.

Modigliani. Exh. cat., Seibu Gallery. Tokyo, 1968, no. 36.

Traditions: The Region/The World. Michigan Arttrain, 1981, no. 37 (ill.).

"Family Art Game." DIA Advertising Supplement. Detroit News/Detroit Free Press (April 18, 1982): p. 26 (ill.).

Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art. Tokyo, 1989, no. 86 (ill.).

Wagner, Monique. From Gaul to De Gaulle: An Outline of French Civilization. New York, 1989, p. xiv, pl. 40 (ill.).

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Amedeo Modigliani, A Woman, 1917-1920, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 26.16.

A Woman
A Woman