{"id":200787,"date":"2025-10-15T02:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/200787\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T02:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:15:08","slug":"pace-brings-modigliani-work-to-paris-marking-collab-with-restelllini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/200787\/","title":{"rendered":"Pace Brings Modigliani Work to Paris Marking Collab With Restelllini"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOn Tuesday, mega-gallery Pace announced the highlights for its presentation at Art Basel Paris later this month. Among the works on offer is a major painting by Amedeo Modigliani<\/a>: his widely exhibited 1918 canvas Jeune fille aux macarons (Young Woman with Hair in Side Buns).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe inclusion of the Modigliani, which Pace said is priced around $10 million, is more than a nod to the Italian artist\u2019s ties to Paris, where he lived for much of his life and is buried in P\u00e8re Lachaise Cemetery. It also serves as a preview of a newly formalized partnership between the gallery and the Institut Restellini, which are collaborating on a forthcoming Modigliani catalogue raisonn\u00e9 set to be published in March. Pace will host a series of symposia in New York in 2026 and an exhibition on the artist in 2027, per a press release<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cMarc Restellini\u2019s Modigliani catalogue raisonn\u00e9 is not only the definitive publication on the artist\u2014it is also setting a new standard for all catalogues raisonn\u00e9s,\u201d Pace CEO Marc Glimcher said in a statement. \u201cHis groundbreaking methodology and pioneering use of science and technology as part of this decades-long project involving dozens of experts around the world has led to the authentication of a total of 424 works by the artist, many of which we are thrilled to exhibit at our New York gallery in 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe forthcoming volume\u2014authored by Modigliani scholar Marc Restellini and distributed by Yale University Press\u2014has been decades in the making. Restellini began work on the project in 1985. For much of that time, his painstaking research, which included persuading cautious collectors to subject their purported Modiglianis to scientific testing and infrared photography, was funded by the Wildenstein Institute, a Paris-based research center run by the Wildenstein family, the long-time art dealers who for nearly 20 years were partners in PaceWildenstein.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the death of patriarch Daniel Wildenstein, his son Guy told Restellini that the institute would no longer support his research, according to a 2020 copyright lawsuit filed by Restellini and reported<\/a> by The New York Times at the time. The Wildenstein Institute wound down operations and later transferred its archives to a new nonprofit, the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, dedicated to digitizing catalogues raisonn\u00e9s and other important art-historical documents. In 2020, Restellini sued the Wildenstein Plattner Institute to block it from publishing materials he had produced for the Modigliani project. The two parties reached a settlement in May, according to public court documents.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe release of Restellini\u2019s long-awaited catalogue raisonn\u00e9\u2014the sixth produced for Modigliani\u2014has been teased for more than a decade. In 2016, he said<\/a> he would move forward with publication that year despite receiving death threats and legal pressure<\/a> over his decision to exclude certain works. If the raisonn\u00e9 is actually published next March, it would mark a full decade since he made that statement.<\/p>\n

\n\tAuthenticity in the Modigliani market has long been fraught. The artist was known to sell or gift paintings and drawings without documenting them, leaving ample opportunity for forgeries to surface. Given the prices his works command, the incentive is high: the late Milton Esterow, former publisher of ARTnews, once wrote in Vanity Fair of a \u201cModigliani forgery epidemic<\/a>.\u201d In that piece, he quoted Marc Spiegler, former Art Basel director, who said of the market, \u201cThe drama here is that I could find a Modigliani in an attic tomorrow, with a letter from Modigliani attached to it, and people would still hesitate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2015, Modigliani\u2019s auction record was set at Christie\u2019s New York, where Nu couch\u00e9 sold for $170.4 million to billionaire investor Liu Yiqian, one of China\u2019s leading art collectors. A comparable work sold in 2018 at Sotheby\u2019s New York for $157 million. Only seven Modigliani works priced above $10 million have come to auction since, the most recent being Paulette Jourdain (1917), which sold at Sotheby\u2019s Hong Kong in October 2023 for $34.8 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith the Wildenstein Plattner\u2013Restellini dispute now resolved and the catalogue raisonn\u00e9 finally nearing publication\u2014one that promises to include some 100 newly authenticated works, half of which reside in museum collections\u2014Pace may be betting that the artist\u2019s market is poised to loosen once again.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for Jeune fille aux macarons, it is of course included in the new publication. It last appeared in 2021 at Vienna\u2019s Albertina Museum for \u201cThe Primitivist Revolution<\/a>\u201d and was offered by David L\u00e9vy at Masterpiece London in 2019, though it did not sell. According to Pace, it\u2019s been with the same collector since 2005. (According to the provenance listed by L\u00e9vy for Masterpiece, the work belongs to a private collection in Switzerland.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday, mega-gallery Pace announced the highlights for its presentation at Art Basel Paris later this month. Among…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[87205,6225,6485,6486,1120,96,81346,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-200787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-amedeo-modigliani","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-pace-gallery","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}