at the back: labels and stamps on the support Galleria Pirra, Turin; Caja de Pensiones stamp; Institut Francaise de Naples label

The work is accompanied by an authentication by Joseph Lanthemann where is dated 1919 and a certificate of sale signed by Laurin Guillox Buffetaud, Commissaires Priseurs, Paris

PROVENANCE
Palais Galliera, Paris 8 December 1973
Tubiana, Paris
Pirra Gallery, Turin
Private Collection, Turin

EXHIBITIONS
Modigliani 1884-1920, Center Cultural de la Caja de Pensiones, Barcelona April-May 1983, Madrid June 1983
Modigliani 1884-1920, Galleria Pirra, Turin March-April 1984
Amedeo Modigliani: Drawings, Principe Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes Museum, Naples 30 May-1 July 1984

BIBLIOGRAPHY
VV.AA., L’or des années folles, Paris 1979, p. 24 (1919-1920, lead pencil)
J. Lanthemann, J. Modigliani, C. Parisot, Modigliani 1884-1920, Barcelona 1983, p. 162 (1918-19, blue pencil)
VV.AA., Modigliani. Centenary 1884-1920, Turin 1984, p. 85, no. 39 (1918-19, blue pencil)
VV.AA., Amedeo Modigliani: Drawings, Naples 1984, p. 110, no. 52 (1918-19, lead point)
O. Patani, Amedeo Modigliani: General Catalogue. Drawings 1906-1920 with Drawings from the Paul Alexandre Collection (1906-1914), Milan 1994, p. 115, no. 148 (1915-16, graphite and fat pencil, 40x24 cm)