Seated nude (Lyon)

Oil on canvas, dated 1916?

Date1916?

MediumOil on canvas

Size116 × 73.5 cm?

CollectionMusée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon

SignatureBottom right

Investigation1916-w-65

Identification

Published titles: English: Seated nude (Lyon); Seated nude.
Date: 1916?
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Dimensions: 116 × 73.5 cm, recorded with a query.
Signature: Signed modigliani at bottom right.
Present location: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon (inv. 1997-42). This investigation notes that the work is not listed in the museum’s public database and is recorded as not on view after published doubts as to authenticity.

Catalogue numbers

Compiler	Number
Arthur Pfannstiel	no. 161
Joseph Lanthemann	no. 128
Ambrogio Ceroni	NO
Jeanne Modigliani	YES
Christian Parisot	?
Osvaldo Patani	?
Modigliani Project	?
MR	?
Modigliani Initiative	?

Legal note on MR: This investigation has not had access to MR’s catalogue raisonné; all research here is based on open sources, publications and exhibitions. By no means has that catalogue been copied at any point. Modigliani Project and Modigliani Initiative are marked YES when the work is published or otherwise recorded by those projects, even if no catalogue number is assigned; otherwise the field is marked ?.

Provenance

Unpublished early history.
Myran Eknayan Collection.
Jacqueline Delubac Collection.
Donated by Delubac to the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 1997 (inv. 1997-42).

The sequence follows the published museum, sale, and catalogue record in this investigation. Gaps and uncertain transfers are marked as such.

Selected bibliography

Book-length publications are marked with a footnote giving a full citation. Exhibition catalogues appear in both this list and the exhibition list when this investigation recorded them in both places. Where this investigation listed a long run of secondary mentions, only the principal catalogues and museum or sale references are retained here.

Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, 1950, pl. 13.¹
Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 161.²
Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 128.³

Exhibitions

Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Jacqueline Delubac, le choix de la modernité, 2014–15.

Notes

This investigation marks the work as not located in the D’Atri papers.

A published article in Lyon Capitale (linked from this investigation) describes the work as a false Modigliani within the Delubac donation. This investigation records that the painting is not on view after doubts of authenticity. Those statements are reported as published; no further judgement is added here.

The working notes for this investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.

Seated nude — Reproduction published in the documentation assembled for this investigation.

Delubac apartment, c. 1997 — Interior of Jacqueline Delubac’s apartment, c. 1997, as published in the documentation assembled for this investigation.

Lyon exhibition, 2014–15 — The work framed at the 2014–15 Lyon exhibition.

Footnotes

Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, Modigliani peintures, Paris, Les Éditions du Chêne, 1950.
Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.
Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.