Identification

Title

Paul Guillaume.

Date

1916.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

81 × 54 cm. Pfannstiel: 80 × 54 cm. 1958 exhibition: 78 × 52 cm. Patani: 80.5 × 54 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at lower centre-left, in white; inscribed PAUL / GUILLAUME / 1916 at top left.

Present location

Museo del Novecento, Milan, inv. 7431.

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. Paul Guillaume, Paris.
2. Galleria Il Milione, Milan (in 1955).
3. Cossato Collection, Milan? (recorded with a query).
4. Pallini Collection, Milan.
5. Bonomi Collection, Milan (by 1946).
6. Jucker Collection, Milan.
7. Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan (by 1958).
8. Museo del Novecento, Milan, inv. 7431.

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.

• Waldemar George, La grande peinture contemporaine à la collection Paul Guillaume, Paris, 1929, p. 11.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929, p. 14, no. 1.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 86.²
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 62.³
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 117.⁴
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 108.⁵
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 1/1916.⁶
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 112.⁷
• Werner Schmalenbach, 1990, p. 85, no. 37.⁸
• Simonetta Fraquelli, 2006, pp. 30, 89, no. 13.⁹
• Nancy Ireson and Simonetta Fraquelli, 2017, p. 89.¹⁰

Exhibitions

• Milan, 1946, no. 6 (80.5 × 54 cm).
• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1950.
• Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1950.
• Cleveland Museum of Art and New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1951.
• Rome, IV Quadriennale, 1951–1952.
• Bern, Kunsthalle, 1955, no. 11.
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, 1958, no. 18.
• Edinburgh and London, 1963, no. 20.
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 29.
• Düsseldorf and Zurich, 1991, no. 35.
• Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 44.
• London, Royal Academy of Arts, Modigliani and His Models, 2006, no. 13.
• Bonn, 2009, no. 72.
• London, Tate Modern, 2017–2018.

Notes

D’Atri files no. 289: 80.5 × 54 cm, dated 1916, provenance Guillaume Collection.

This investigation records holes in two corners.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

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