Two Young Peasants in Prayer

Inscription: Signed (lower left, in graphite): Modigliani

[Leopold Zborowski or Paul Guillaume, Paris; sold to Brillouin]; Stefa and Leon Brillouin, Paris, Madison, Wisc., and New York (by 1940–at least 1959; sold to Fishko); Mr. and Mrs. Sol Fishko, New York (until 1981; their gift to MMA)

Madison. Memorial Union Gallery, University of Wisconsin. "Brillouin Collection," February–March 9, 1942, no catalogue.

Providence. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. "Modigliani Drawings in the Collection of L. Brillouin," April 1943, no catalogue.

New York. American British Art Center, Inc. "Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920): Sixtieth Anniversary of Modigliani's Birth," November 13–December 2, 1944, no. 22 (as "Two Girls at Prayers") [exhibition of the Brillouin collection].

Cleveland Museum of Art. "Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture," January 30–March 18, 1951, unnumbered cat. (p. 53; as "Two Girls at Prayers," lent by Mr. and Mrs. Leon Brillouin, New York).

Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture," April 11–June 10, 1951, unnumbered cat.

Cambridge, Mass. Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. "Modigliani Drawings from the Collection of Stefa and Leon Brillouin," November 3–December 12, 1959, no. 18.

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. "Modigliani," July 19–September 29, 1985, no. 73.

Nagoya. Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery. "Modigliani," October 23–November 7, 1985, no. 73.

Düsseldorf. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. "Amedeo Modigliani. Malerei—Skulpturen—Zeichnungen," January 19–April 1, 1991, no. 179.

Kunsthaus Zürich. "Amedeo Modigliani. Malerei—Skulpturen—Zeichnungen," April 19–July 7, 1991, no. 179.

Washington, D. C. Phillips Collection. "Modigliani: Beyond the Myth," February 19–May 29, 2005, unnumbered cat. (pl. 120).

Agnes Mongan. Modigliani Drawings from the Collection of Stefa and Leon Brillouin. Exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. Cambridge, Mass., 1959, p. 26, no. 18, ill. n.p.

J[oseph]. Lanthemann. Modigliani, 1884–1920, catalogue raisonné: Sa vie, son Oeuvre complet, son art. Barcelona, 1970, p. 149, no. 823, ill. p. 352, calls it "Paysannes en prière" and dates it 1916.

Christian Parisot. Modigliani: Catalogue raisonné. Ed. Giorgio and Guido Guastalla. Vol. 2, Peintures, dessins, aquarelles. Livorno, 1991, p. 376, no. 58/16, ill. p. 365, calls it "Paysannes en prière".

Osvaldo Patani. Amedeo Modigliani: Catalogo generale. Vol. 3, Disegni 1906–1920. Milan, 1994, p. 154, no. 234, ill., calls it "Due donne in preghiera".

Christian Parisot. Modigliani: Catalogue raisonné. Vol. 3, Dessins, aquarelles. Rome, 2006, p. 294, no. 119/16, ill. p. 166, calls it "Deux femmes en prière".