Seated Nude

Date1918?TitleSeated nude with hands in lap - Seated nude with hands crossed - Seated nude - Seated nude with folded hands - Blond nude seatedMaterialsOil on canvasSize100.3 x 64.8 cm ?Signature:Signed "modigliani" top rightActual LocationHonolulu Museum of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (Inv. Nº 2895.1)Provenance-?- ? Bernheim Jeune Gallery, Paris ? Private Collection, Paris Helen Hughes Richards Collection Carter Galt Collection, Honolulu (? to 1960) This painting was cleaned during the last years of the past century loosing much of the original colors as can be seen in this images from the before & after. Large lines has been washed away and almost vanished, all the colors has lost the original vigority, as example lines under the right breast are actually almost invisible. Probably with a good cleaning the greens would become blues like in the upper work, but the overcleaning made the blues become grey (varnish oxidation adds a yellow layer on top of the colors and when you have a blue background with a yellow layer on top it becomes green) Like in this painting with almost exactly the same position: This page is a work on progress, nothing in this page should be considered as final or definitive.