Identification

Published titles

English: Chaïm Soutine; Portrait of Chaïm Soutine.

Date

1916–17?
Jeanne Modigliani and several exhibitions dated it 1917.
D’Atri papers date it 1917, no. 31.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

100 × 65 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at bottom right in white.

Present location

Netter Collection, Paris, recorded with a query.

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. Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
2. Netter Collection, Paris (from 1928, recorded with a query).

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.

• André Salmon, 1926, pl. 10.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929, p. 29, no. 2.²
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 177.³
• Jeanne Modigliani, 1958, no. 44 (dated 1917).⁴
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 80.⁵
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 171.⁶
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 141.⁷
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, p. 123, no. 37.
• Werner Schmalenbach, 1990, p. 96, no. 46.⁸
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 36/1916.⁹
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 142.¹⁰
• MR, 2002, pp. 254–55.¹¹
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.¹²
• MR, 2008, no. 56.¹³
• MR, 2012.¹⁴

Exhibitions

• Venice, Biennale, Mostra retrospettiva di Modigliani, 1930, no. 14.
• Paris, Galerie Marcel Bernheim, 1931, no. 10 (dated 1917).
• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1933, no. 31 (dated 1917, Netter Collection).
• Basel, Kunsthalle, 1934, no. 23.
• Paris, Galerie de France, 1945–46, no. 9.
• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 1958, no. 50 (dated 1917).
• Marseille, Musée Cantini, 1958, no. 14.
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 37.
• Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1990, no. 59.
• Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, and Zurich, Kunsthaus, 1991, no. 40.
• Lugano, Museo d’Arte Moderna, 1999, no. 26.
• Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 53; Milan, Palazzo Reale, 2003, no. 37.
• Tokyo, National Art Center, and Osaka, National Museum of Art, 2008, no. 31.
• Goyang, Aram & Harmony Art Museum, 2008.
• St Petersburg, Fabergé Museum, The Netter Collection, 2017–18, no. 117.
• Livorno, Museo della Città, La Collection Jonas Netter, 2019–20.

Notes

Recorded in the D’Atri papers as 1917, no. 31.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

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