Identification

Published titles

English: Dr Deveraigne (Evergreen House); Dr Deveraigne; The handsome commander; The medical officer.
French: Le beau major; Le major.

Date

1917.

Medium

Oil on canvas?

Dimensions

55.9 × 47 cm. Ceroni, Parisot and Patani: 55 × 46 cm. The 1963 exhibition: 55 × 45.7 cm.

Signature

Signed Modigliani at top right; dated 1917. at bottom right. Reverse not recorded as seen.

Present location

Evergreen House Foundation, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, inv. EH1952.1.32. Permanent loan by Alice Garrett, 1952.

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. Dr Deveraigne, Paris?
2. Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (by 1922).
3. George Biddle Collection, New York.
4. Frank Crowninshield Collection, New York (from 1925).
5. John Work Garrett Collection, Baltimore; Alice Garrett, Baltimore.
6. Evergreen House Foundation, inv. EH1952.1.32, permanent loan 1952.

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
• Chester Dale, 1929, pl. 34.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 119.²
• Jeanne Modigliani, 1958.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1965, no. 182.⁴
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 199.⁵
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 182.⁶
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 8/1917.⁷
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 188.⁸
• Kenneth Wayne, 2002, p. 94, no. 17.⁹
• Mason Klein, 2004, p. 119, pl. 34.¹⁰

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1922, no. 18.
• New York, De Hauke & Co., 1929, no. 18 (as a French army doctor; Crowninshield Collection).
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1936.
• Cleveland Museum of Art and New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1951.
• Cincinnati, Chicago, Milwaukee and Atlanta, 1959–60.
• Boston and Los Angeles, 1961, no. 12.
• Edinburgh and London, 1963, no. 29; New York, Acquavella, 1971, no. 27.
• Tokyo and Nagoya, 1985, no. 78.
• Buffalo, Fort Worth and Los Angeles, 2002–03, no. 17.
• Washington, The Phillips Collection, 2005.

Notes

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

This investigation records holes at the corners of the support. Corner holes are recorded as covered by restoration.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

This investigation records three published versions of the same sitter: a private collection; this Evergreen House canvas; and the Bührle Collection, Zurich.

Open records place Doctor Devaraigne at the Evergreen House Foundation, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, inv. EH1952.1.32, oil on canvas, 55.9 × 47 cm, Ceroni no. 182, Alice Warder Garrett Collection. The spellings Devaraigne, Deveraigne and Devraigne vary in the published record; this file keeps the investigation title.

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