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Anadiomena,
ca. 1914–15
Modigliani’s fascination with the female nude, as conveyed in numerous paintings and one surviving sculpture, also resulted in many drawings in various media, often coming from his imagination. Characterized by short, broken strokes, this graphite example, made on a sketchbook page, includes the artist’s prominent inscription, “Anadiomena.” This is an Italianization of the Greek “Anadyomene,” an epithet for the goddess Aphrodite (or Venus), meaning “she who emerges or rises” — an allusion to her legendary birth, fully grown, from the foam of the sea. Her pose is indebted to various Hellenistic sculptures of the so-called Crouching Venus type, which Modigliani could have seen in the Louvre or in various Italian collections prior to his move to Paris in 1906.
Laura M. Giles, Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970, Curator of Prints and Drawings, Princeton University Art Museum
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ca. 1914–15
- Franco Russoli, Amedeo Modigliani: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, (Stuttgart: Hatje, 1969)., no. 47 (illus.)
- Franco Russoli, Modigliani drawings, (London: Thames & Hudson, 1969)., no. 47
- J. Lanthemann, Modigliani, 1884-1920, catalogue raisonné; sa vie, son oeuvre complet, son art, (Barcelona: Gráficas Condal, 1970)., no. 604
- 19th and 20th century French drawings from the Art Museum, Princeton University: an introduction, (Princeton, NJ: Distributed by Princeton University Press, 1972)., pp. 40, 93, cat. no. 57; p. 41 (illus.)
- Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977)., Vol. 1: p. 77, no. 204 (illustrated in Vol. 2 under the same catalog number)
- Geneviève Monnier, Bernice Rose and Jean Leymarie, Drawing, (Geneva: Skira; New York: Rizzoli, 1979)., 63, illus. (color)
- Amedeo Modigliani: 1884-1920: 26 mars-28 juin 1981, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, XXe anniversaire, (Paris: Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, 1981)., no. 126 (illus.)
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Richard Brettell, François Forster-Hahn, Duncan Robinson, and Janis A. Tomlinson. "Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European Drawings." Vol. 9 of The Robert Lehman Collection (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002).
, pp. 358-359, fig. 178.5 - Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave, et. al., Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014)., p. 67, cat. no. 27; p. 68 (illus.); p. 69 (verso illus.)
