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"tombstone": "Portrait of a Woman, c. 1917\u201318. Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884\u20131920). Oil on canvas; framed: 94.6 x 77.5 x 6 cm (37 1/4 x 30 1/2 x 2 3/8 in.); unframed: 65 x 48.3 cm (25 9/16 x 19 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund, 1951.358",
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"inscription": "Signed upper right: \"Modigliani\"",
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"id": 301477,
"title": "In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.",
"description": "In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958).",
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"title": "Juxtapositions",
"description": "Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).",
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"title": "Modigliani Exhibition: Love and Nostalgia for Montparnasse",
"description": "Modigliani Exhibition: Love and Nostalgia for Montparnasse. Daimaru Department Store Gallery, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (organizer) (September 13-October 16, 1979); Daimaru Department Store Gallery, Osaka, Osaka, Japan (October 25-November 6, 1979).",
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"title": "Modigliani",
"description": "Modigliani. Saint Georges Gallery, Liege, Liege, Belgium (organizer) (October 17-December 14, 1980).",
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"title": "Modigliani and the Artists of Montparnasse",
"description": "Modigliani and the Artists of Montparnasse. Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (October 18, 2002-January 12, 2003); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (February 8-May 25, 2003); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (June 28-September 28, 2003).",
"opening_date": "2002-10-18T00:00:00"
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"title": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009).",
"opening_date": "2006-05-27T00:00:00"
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"title": "Amedeo Modigliani. A painter and his dealer",
"description": "Amedeo Modigliani. A painter and his dealer. Mus\u00e9e de l'Orangerie, Paris, France (organizer) (September 19, 2023-January 15, 2024) https://www.musee-orangerie.fr/fr/agenda/expositions/amedeo-modigliani-un-peintre-et-son-marchand.",
"opening_date": "2023-09-19T04:00:00"
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"description": "Old Masters of Modern Art. The Hackley Art Gallery, Muskegon, MI, (October 6-November 17, 1958).",
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"description": "(Galerie Paul Guillaume, Paris, France)",
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"The label for Galerie Paul Guillaume is present on the back of the painting.
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],
"date": "?",
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"description": "Georges B\u00e9nard, Paris",
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"Georges B\u00e9nard was a banker and collector of Impressionist works.
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"date": "Until 1933",
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"description": "(B\u00e9nard sale, H\u00f4tel Drouot, June 9, 1933 (no. 67), sold to G. Bernheim)",
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"Vuillard's Under the Trees (CMA 1953.212) also appeared in the B\u00e9nard sale (no. 90).
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"description": "Probably Georges Bernheim, Paris, France",
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"Guy-Patrice Dauberville believes that \u201cG. Bernheim,\u201d the buyer at the 1933 sale, refers to Georges Bernheim, an art dealer who operated a gallery separate from that of his cousin, Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune. Georges Bernheim\u2019s gallery had closed by the early 1950s. A sale of Bernheim\u2019s collection on June 7, 1935 does not include the Cleveland picture. It also does not appear among the list of works confiscated from Bernheim\u2019s collection by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, although a list of works seized from his collection provided by Bernheim to French authorities in 1946 suggests a number of confiscated artworks were not recorded by the ERR. The Cleveland picture has also not been located in any other databases or lists of confiscated works.
"
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{
"description": "(C\u00e9sar de Hauke, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"did_you_know": "Modigliani drew and painted from an early age; when he was 11 years old, his mother predicted that he would become an artist.",
"description": "Born to a Sephardic Jewish family in Livorno, Italy, Amedeo Modigliani studied briefly in Florence and Venice before moving to Paris in 1906 where he became a key member of the avant-garde art world. His portraits, known for their subtle color and elegantly elongated forms, chronicle the lives of fellow artists and poets, although the woman in this painting remains unidentified.",
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"citation": "Ho\u0302tel Drouot. Tableaux modernes, aquarelles, gouaches, pastels. June 9, 1933.",
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"citation": "Ho\u0302tel Drouot. Tableaux modernes, aquarelles, gouaches, pastels. June 9, 1933.",
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"citation": "Margaret Burgess, letter to Guy-Patrice Dauberville, Nov. 12, 2003, in CMA curatorial file.",
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Guy-Patrice Dauberville, letter to Margaret Burgess, Jan. 20, 2004, in CMA curatorial file.
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"citation": "Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 . [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 44",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1952"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 520",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n96"
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"citation": "Moore, Janet Gaylord. The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art. Cleveland, OH: World Pub. Co, 1968.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 9: Mentioned: p. 29",
"url": null
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"citation": "Lanthemann, J. Modigliani, 1884-1920, catalogue raisonne\u0301; sa vie, son oeuvre complet, son art. Barcelona, Spain: Gra\u0301ficas Condal, 1970.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 121; Reproduced: p. 215, pl. 207",
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"citation": "Sakai, Tadayasu, and Toshio Yamanashi. Modiriani Ten. Tokyo, Japan: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1979.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 53; Mentioned: p. 107-108",
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"citation": "Wayne, Kenneth, and Amedeo Modigliani. Modigliani & the Artists of Montparnasse. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams in association with the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 2002.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: no. 23, p. 100",
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"citation": "Picasso, Ingres: Paris, Muse\u0301e Picasso, 16 mars-21 juin 2004 : Montauban, Mus\u0301ee Ingres, 8 juillet-3 octobre 2004. Paris, France: Re\u0301union des muse\u0301es nationaux, 2004.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 83",
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"citation": "Calvo Serraller, Francisco. Picasso : tradicio\u0301n y vanguardia : gui\u0301a antolo\u0301gica de la exposicio\u0301n, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, del 6 de junio al 3 de septiembre de 2006. Madrid, Spain: Fundacio\u0301n Amigos del Museo del Prado, 2006.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 104-109",
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"citation": "Fraquelli, Simonetta, and Ce\u0301cile Girardeau, eds. Modigliani: Un Peintre et Son Marchand. Paris: Flammarion: Muse\u0301e de l\u2019Orangerie, 2023.",
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"citation": "Modigliani: A Painter and His Art Dealer, edited by Simonetta Fraquelli and C\u00e9cile Girardeau. Paris: \u00c9ditions Flammarion: Mus\u00e9e de l\u2019Orangerie, 2023.",
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