Lot n° 33
Estimation :
80000 - 120000
EUR
* Amedeo MODIGLIANI (1884-1920) and Uberto... - Lot 33 - Ader
* Amedeo MODIGLIANI (1884-1920) and Uberto MONDOLFI (1877-1941) (Attributed to
)Allegory of Life, circa 1896-98Oil
on panel of a piece of furniture.
Unsigned.
Dimensions of the shelf : 92 x 33,5 x 29,5 cmProvenance
:
- Margherita Modigliani, 1947.
- Anna Mondolfi, sister of Uberto Mondolfi, Naples, 1958.
- Private collection, Italy Switzerland
.
Exhibitions:
- Modigliani e i suoi, Fondazione Cini, Venice, 1999.
- Modigliani y la Escula de Paris, Caja Segovia, January 21 - August 31, 2002, reproduced in the catalog p. 59
.
- A. Modigliani, Jeanne Hébuterne e gli artisti di Montmartre e Montparnasse, Castello Svevo, 2003.
Bibliography:
- Anna Mondolfi, Uberto Mondolfi nel ricordo di sua figlia, Estratto della rivista di Livorno, No. 1957, Livorno, reproduced p. 12.
- Jeanne Modigliani, Modigliani: Man and Myth, New York, Orion Press, 1958, cited p. 17 (dated 1896)
.
- Jeanne Modigliani, Modigliani sans légende, Paris, Gründ, 1961
- Lanthemann, Catalogue raisonné, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970, n°V and VI, reproduced p. 18
- Modigliani e i suoi, Jeanne Hébuterne, André Hébuterne, Georges Dorignac, Amedeo Modigliani, Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice, Canal Arte, 2000, reproduced p.
28
Christian Parisot, Amedeo Modigliani, 1884-1920, Biography, Turin, Éditions Canale Arte, 2000, reproduced p. 60.
this lot is presented as a temporary import
.
Uberto Mondolfi was Modigliani's first great friend. "The two children were inseparable. They had common experiences and together they made their first "work", which Jeanne Modigliani managed to date to 1896-97, decorating a shelf on the uprights of which they painted on one side a skull and a woman's head with a very vivid coloring; on the other, the portrait of an old man with a long beard. The woman's head and the skull were to symbolize "love in all its destructive power", while the man was to symbolize the male "succubus as he too often is". These words are from Uberto Mondolfi, Jeanne says in her biography, and she adds: "Amedeo was then only 12 years old, but he already showed, according to Mondolfi, a precocious imagination and such intolerance to family conformism and especially to paternal authority, that once the old Rodolfo Mondolfi believed he had to address him bitter reproaches..." (Christian Parisot, Amedeo Modigliani, 1884-1920, Biography, Turin, Editions Canale Arte, 2000, p. 58).
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