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Amedeo Modigliani

Girl in a Green Blouse, 1917

East Building, Ground Level — Gallery 103-A

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 81.3 x 46 cm (32 x 18 1/8 in.)

framed: 95.9 x 60 cm (37 3/4 x 23 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Chester Dale Collection

Accession Number

1963.10.45

Artists / Makers

Amedeo Modigliani (artist) Italian, 1884 - 1920

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Inscription

upper right: modigliani

Provenance

Marcel Norero; (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 14 February 1927, no. 80, as Le Corsage Vert); (Etienne Bignou, Paris);[1] sold 5 April 1927 to Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; bequest 1963 to NGA.

[1]Osvaldo Patani's Amadeo Modigliani: Catalogo Generale, 1991 attributes another owner, Georges Cheron of Paris, before Chester Dale. However, this is the only source that states this provenance.

Associated Names

Bignou, Etienne
Dale, Chester
Drouot, Hôtel
Norero, Marcel

Exhibition History

1922: Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1922.

1927: A Century of French Painting, McLellan Gallery, Glasgow, 1927, no. 54

1929: Reid and Lefevre Galleries, London, 1929.

1931: Amedeo Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Demotte, Inc., New York, 1931, no. 15.

1943: Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1943-1951, unnumbered cat., repro.

1965: The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.

1983: Modigliani: An Anniversary Exhibition, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1983-1984, unnumbered brochure [exhibited in Washington only].

Bibliography

1929: Dale, Maud. Before Manet to Modigliani from the Chester Dale Collection. New York, 1929: no. 100, repro., as Le Corsage Vert.

1930: Read, H.A. "The Chester Dale Collection." Vogue 25 (15 February 1930): repro. 81.

1943: Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. Philadelphia, 1943:, unpaginated, repro., as The Green Blouse.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 90.

1965: Twentieth Century French Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965 (rev. ed.): 62, repro.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 80, repro.

1970: Ceroni, Ambrogio, and Leone Piccioni. I dipinti di Modigliani. Milan, 1970: no. 114, repro.

1970: Lanthemann, Joseph. Modigliani 1884-1920. Catalogue raisonné. Barcelona, 1970: 135, no. 407, repro.

1972: Ceroni, Ambrogio, and Françoise Cachin. Tout l'oeuvre peint de Modigliani. Translated by Simone Darses. Paris, 1972: no. 114, repro.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 234, repro.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 586, no. 899, color repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 272, repro.