Identification

Published titles

English: Dr Deveraigne (second version); Dr Deveraigne.

Date

1917.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

55.3 × 46.7 cm. Parisot and Patani: 55 × 46 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at bottom right, and a second time modigliani. / 1917. at top right. Reverse not recorded as seen.

Present location

Private collection? This investigation last records the Bruce and Robbi Toll Collection, Philadelphia.

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. Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris.
3. Chester H. Johnson Galleries, Chicago (by 1928).
4. Sale, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, 14 November 1934, lot 67 (sold USD 700).
5. George Gershwin, New York; Mr and Mrs Ira Gershwin, Los Angeles (by descent).
6. The Eliot Corday Foundation and the Ira and Leonore Gershwin Philanthropic Trust.
7. Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 11 November 1999, lot 135.
8. Private collection, USA.
9. Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 4 November 2004, sale 7379, lot 49 (estimate USD 2,000,000–3,000,000; bought in).
10. Bruce and Robbi Toll Collection, Philadelphia.

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.

• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929, p. 18.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 119 bis.²
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1965, no. 184 (this investigation gives Ceroni no. 183).³
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 200.⁴
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 183.⁵
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 9/1917.⁶
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 189.⁷
• Mason Klein, Modigliani Unmasked, New York, The Jewish Museum, 2017.

Exhibitions

• Chicago, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, 1928, 1930 and 1931.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1936.
• Boston and Los Angeles, 1961, no. 13.
• New York, The Jewish Museum, Modigliani Unmasked, 2018.

Notes

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

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

This investigation records three published versions of the same sitter.

A photograph from the 2018 Jewish Museum exhibition is reproduced; this investigation notes that the surface appears recently cleaned, without a published conservation report.

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