Madame Amédée (Woman with Cigarette)

Provenance

Kunding Collection, Geneva; Falk Collection, Geneva; (Georges Moos, Geneva);[1] sold 1925 to (Etienne Bignou, Paris) in Berlin; sold 3 May 1927 to Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; bequest 1963 to NGA. [1]Osvaldo Patani's _Amedeo Modigliani: Catalogo Generale_, 1991 attributes another owner, Jacques Dubourg of Paris, before Etienne Bignou. However, this is the only source that states this provenance. Information in the photograph albums from the Bignou Gallery, now at the Documentation center of the Musée d'Orsay (copy, NGA curatorial files), include Kunding, Falk, Bignou and Dale in the provenance.

Madame Amédée (Woman with Cigarette)

Modigliani, Amedeo

1918

Accession Number

1963.10.172

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 100.3 x 64.8 cm (39 1/2 x 25 1/2 in.) | framed: 114.9 x 80.6 x 6.3 cm (45 1/4 x 31 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Chester Dale Collection