PROVENANCE:
Leopold Zborowski, Paris (acquired from the artist)
Dr. Raymond-Jacques Sabouraud, Paris (most likely acquired from the above and until his death in 1937)
Georges Renand, Paris (probably acquired through a dealer from the estate of the above, and sold: Drouot-
Montaigne, Paris, November 20, 1987, lot 6)
Private Collection, Asia (sold: Sotheby's, New
York, November 11, 1999, lot 125)
EXHIBITED:
Zürich, Kunsthaus, Italienische Maler, 1927, no. 106
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent chefs-d'oeuvre des peintres de l'Ecole de Paris, 1946
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent chefs-d'oeuvre d'art francais, 1947, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Paris, Musée national d'Art Moderne, L'Art Moderne Italien, 1950, no. 49 (titled Nu assis)
Rome, VI Quadriennale Nazionale d'Arte, Amedeo Modigliani, 1951-52, no. 13
Tokyo; Osaka; Sapporo; Nagoya, Mitsukoshi, La Ruche-Ecole de Paris et Montparnasse, 1978, no. 56
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Ruche et Montparnasse, 1978-79, no. 94
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Amedeo Modigliani, 1981, no. 54, illustrated in color in the catalogue
(titled Nu assis sur un divan, La Belle Romaine)
Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen & Zürich, Kunsthaus, Amedeo Modigliani, Malerei, Skulpturen,
Zeichnungen, 1991, no. 62, illustrated in color in the catalogue (titled Nu assis)
LITERATURE:
Maurice de Vlaminck, "Modigliani," L'Art Vivant, Paris, 1925
"Gemälde von Modigliani," Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, Darmstadt, July 1925, illustrated
André Salmon, Modigliani, sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris, 1926, illustrated pl. 6
Mark Schwartz, Modigliani, Paris, 1927, illustrated pl. XI
Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani, Paris, 1929, catalogued p. 24
Michel Georges-Michel, Les Montparnos, Paris, 1929 (revised edition), illustrated p. 189
"Amedeo Modigliani," Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, Darmstadt, January 1931, illustrated p. 245
René Huyghe, French paintings, the Contemporaries, Paris, 1940, illustrated pl. 6
Georges Besson, 1900-1940, Amplepuis-Rhône, 1944, illustrated pl. 18
Rafaello Franchi, Modigliani, Florence, 1944, ilustrated pl. 11
Rafaello Franchi, Modigliani, Florence, 1946, illustrated pl. XIX
Pierre Descargues, Modigliani, Paris, 1951, illustrated on the cover
Enzo Carli, Modigliani, Rome, 1952, illustrated pl. 17 and on the cover
Paolo d'Ancona, Modigliani, Chagall, Soutine, Pascin - Aspetti dell'Espressionismo, Milan, 1952, illustrated pl. 18
Paul Ferdinand Schmidt, Geschichte der Modernen Malerei, Zürich, 1952, illustrated pl. 16
"Omaggio a Amedeo Modigliani," Rivista di Livorno, Livorno, July-August 1954, illustrated pl. 14
Georges Poisson, La donna nella pittura francese moderna, Novara, 1955, illustrated pl. 44/a
E. Lavavigno, L'Arte Moderna, vol. II, Turin, 1956, illustrated p. 1033
Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, Etude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1956, no. 147, fig. 31,
illustrated p. 114
Marcel Brion, La peinture moderne de l'Impressionnisme et l'art abstrait, Paris, 1957, illustrated p. 81
Jean-Albert Cartier, Modigliani- Nus, Paris, 1958, illustrated pl. 15
Ambrogio Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani, Peintre, Milan, 1958, no. 129, illustrated in color pl. 129 (titled Nu assis (au
divan) and as dating from circa 1917-18)
Franco Russoli, Modigliani, London, 1959, illustrated pl. 21
Corrado Pavolini, Modigliani, Milan, 1966, illustrated pl. 14
Alfred Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, New York, 1968, illustrated p. 135
Gaston Diehl, Modigliani, Lugano, 1969, illustrated p. 69
Csorba Geza, Modigliani, Budapest, 1969, illustrated pl. 15
Nello Ponente, Modigliani, Florence, 1969, no. 50
Ambrogio Ceroni & Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, 1970, no. 192, illustrated p. 97 and pl. XXXIII (as
dating from 1917)
Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, 1884-1920- Catalogue raisonné, sa vie, son oeuvre complet, son art, Barcelona,
1970, no. 141, illustrated in color p. 196 (titled Nu assis)
Ambrogio Ceroni & Françoise Cachin, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Modigliani, Paris, 1972, no. 192, illustrated p. 97 and in
color pl. XXXIII
Carol Mann, Modigliani, London, 1980, no. 102, illustrated p. 142
Bernard Zurcher, Modigliani, Paris, 1980, illustrated pl. 39-40
Modigliani, gli anni della scultura (exhibition catalogue), Museo Progressivo d'Arte Contemporanea, Livorno, 1984, no.
23A, illustrated p. 123
Gaston Diehl, Modigliani, New York, 1985 (revised edition), illustrated p. 59
Claude Roy, Modigliani, Geneva, 1985, illustrated pp. 100, 104 and in color on the dust jacket
Alfred Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, New York, 1985, illustrated p. 107
Thérèse Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l'oeuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Paris, 1987, illustrated in color p. 149
Angela Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani- Les Nus, New York, 1989, no. 18, illustrated in color p. 71
Christian Parisot, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné, peintures, dessins, aquarelles, vol. I, Livorno, 1990, illustrated p.
152; vol. II, 1991, no. 33/1917, illustrated in color p. 169 (Nu assis sur le divan (La Belle Romaine))
Werner Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Paintings, Sculptures and Drawings, Munich, 1990, illustrated in color pl.
62
Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani, Catalogo generale, Milan, 1991, no. 195, illustrated in color p. 205 (titled Nudo
seduto su un divano)
Victoria Soto Caba, Modigliani, El rostro intemporal, Madrid, 2008, illustrated in color p. 328