Caryatid (circa 1913-14)

Amedeo Modigliani

graphite on paper

Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Photo credit: Tate

Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Graphite, Paper

Physical Object Description:

Inscribed 'Modigliani' bottom right.

Dimensions:

54.9 x 44.8 (support) cm

Accession Number:

T00149

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1957

Scheme:

The Foreign Fund (1924 -1965)

Ownership history:

With Léopold Zborowski (1889-1932), Paris; bought by Sir Michael Sadler (1861-1943), Old Headington, by 1937; purchased from the Leicester Galleries, London by Contemporary Art Society, 1944; presented to the Tate Gallery, 1957

Relationship:

Michael Ernest Sadler Zborowski Léopold Zborowski Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

This Modigliani drawing, one of many of his caryatids' studies for carved sculpture (an example of which is in the Museum of Modern Art, New York) was shown at the Leicester Galleries, London in January-February 1944 in an exhibition of the collection the renowned recently-deceased patron and collector, Sir Michael Sadler (1861-1943). It was purchased by the Contemporary Art Society from its Foreign Fund (along with Rouault's watercolour Paysage, 1906) but was not accepted by the Tate Gallery until 1957, maybe due it suffering grease damage, possibly in the artist' studio, and not originally regarded as being museum worthy.

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