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Collections

Amedeo Modigliani
Reverie (Study for the Portrait of Frank Burty Haviland)1914

Not on view
Oil painting portrait of a seated figure in profile, head tilted downward, wearing a hat and rust-orange scarf, rendered in loose mosaic-like brushstrokes of coral, teal, and sandy tan

Amedeo Modigliani, Reverie (Study for the Portrait of Frank Burty Haviland), 1914, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William Preston Harrison Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Amedeo Modigliani
Italy, 1884-1920
Title
Reverie (Study for the Portrait of Frank Burty Haviland)
Date Made
1914
Medium
Oil and graphite on cardboard
Dimensions
24 1/2 × 19 1/2 in. (62.23 × 49.53 cm) framed: 32 x 27 1/2 x 4 in. (81.28 x 69.85 x 10.16 cm)
Credit Line
Mr. and Mrs. William Preston Harrison Collection
Accession Number
27.7.2a
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance
The artist (1884-1920); sold 1914 to Frank Burty Haviland; [sold in 1926 at Hôtel Drouot, Paris October 19, 1926, lot 45]; [to Galerie Jeanne Bucher]; sold in 1927 to Ada and William Preston Harrison; Estate of Ada and William Preston Harrison; given in 1927 to Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art; transferred in 1961 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Painting I: Materials, Techniques. Musashino University of Art Press, 2001.
  • Wayne, Kenneth. Modigliani and the Artist of Montparnasse. Buffalo, New York: The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 2002.
  • Amedeo Modigliani; loan exhibition, October 14-November 13, 1971, for the benefit of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. New York: Acquavella Galleries, Inc., 1971.
  • Patani, Osvaldo. Amadeo Modigliani: Catalogo generale, dipinti. Milan: Leonardo Editore, 1991.