Léopold Survage

Identification

Published titles

English: Léopold Survage.

Date

1917–18? The museum dates the work 1918. Parisot 1991 and Patani date it 1917; MR 2008 dates it 1917 as oil on cardboard; Ireson/Fraquelli 2017 date it 1918 as oil on canvas.

Medium

Oil on canvas or cardboard. The museum, Patani, Parisot and Ceroni: canvas. MR: oil on cardboard.

Dimensions

61.5 × 46 cm. Parisot: 61.3 × 46 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Ateneum Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, inv. A IV 2971. Acquired 1955 (from Beyeler?).

Catalogue numbers

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

1. Amedeo Modigliani.
2. Léopold Survage, Paris?
3. Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
4. Roger Dutilleul Collection, Paris.
5. Mme Eyraud Collection, Paris.
6. Galerie Beyeler, Basel.
7. Ateneum, Helsinki, inv. A IV 2971, acquired 1955.

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.

• Jeanne Modigliani, 1958, pl. 11.¹
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1965, no. 201.²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 202.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 211.⁴
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 22/1917 (dated 1917).⁵
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 217 (dated 1917).⁶
• Kenneth Wayne, 2002, p. 36 (oil on canvas, 1918).⁷
• MR, 2008, pp. 140–41 (1917; huile sur carton).⁸
• Nancy Ireson and Simonetta Fraquelli, 2017, p. 93 (1918; oil on canvas).⁹

Exhibitions

• London, Mansard Gallery, French Art 1914–19, 1919, no. 44.
• Marseille, Musée Cantini, 1958, no. 22; Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 1958, no. 64; Rome, GNAM, 1959, no. 41.
• Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris–Moscou, 1979; Liège, 1980, no. 19; Paris, MAMVP, 1981, no. 56 (dated 1917).
• Barcelona and Madrid, 1983, no. 28; Tokyo and Nagoya, 1985, Tokyo no. 85.
• Martigny, 1990, no. 76; Japan tour 1992–93; Lausanne, 1994, no. 5; Lugano, 1999, no. 46 (dated 1918).
• Japan retrospective, 2008; Seoul, 2015; Villeneuve-d’Ascq, Budapest and Helsinki, 2016–17.
• London, Tate Modern, 2017–18.
• Moscow, Pushkin Museum, Les Soirées de Paris of Baroness Oettingen, 2019.

Notes

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

This investigation records holes at the corners of the support.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

The Ateneum Art Museum confirms Portrait of the Artist Léopold Survage, 1918, oil on canvas, 61.5 × 46 cm, inv. A IV 2971, purchased in Switzerland in 1955. Catalogue dates of 1917, and MR’s reading of oil on cardboard, are retained above as the other published readings.

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