Pace Gallery announced highlights for its Art Basel Paris presentation, including a major Amedeo Modigliani painting from 1918, *Jeune fille aux macarons (Young Woman with Hair in Side Buns)*, priced around $10 million. The work previews a new partnership between Pace and the Institut Restellini, founded by Modigliani scholar Marc Restellini. Restellini will collaborate with Pace on symposia in New York in 2026 and an exhibition in 2027, while his long-awaited Modigliani catalogue raisonné—authenticating 424 works—is set for publication in March 2025 by Yale University Press.
The partnership and catalogue raisonné are significant because they address longstanding authenticity issues in the Modigliani market, which has been plagued by forgeries due to the artist's undocumented sales. Restellini's decades-long research, involving scientific testing and infrared photography, aims to set a new standard for catalogues raisonnés. The project also resolves a legal dispute with the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, and the upcoming exhibition and symposia signal a major institutional push to clarify Modigliani's oeuvre, potentially impacting market confidence and prices for his works.