Identification

Published titles

English: Dr Deveraigne (Bührle Collection); Dr Deveraigne.

Date

1914–1917? The collection has dated the work 1915; the 1955 Bern exhibition dated it 1914.

Medium

Oil on canvas?

Dimensions

61 × 50 cm. Other sources: 60.5 × 50 cm.

Signature

Unsigned. Reverse not recorded as seen.

Present location

Emil Bührle Collection, Zurich, inv. 70. Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection in 1960.

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. A. Basler, Paris.
2. Galerie Bing, Paris.
3. Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London, 1953, no. 17.
4. Emil Bührle, Zurich (acquired 2 October 1953).
5. Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, inv. 70 (1960).

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.

• Leopold Reidemeister, Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle, Zurich and Munich, 1973, no. 132.
• Christian Gloor and Marco Goldin, 2004, no. 138.¹

Exhibitions

• London, Marlborough Fine Art, Important French Masters of the XIXth and XXth Centuries, 1953, no. 17.
• Bern, Kunsthalle, Modigliani, Campigli, Sironi, 1955, no. 3.
• Zurich, Kunsthaus, Sammlung Emil G. Bührle, 1958, no. 280.
• Munich, Haus der Kunst, 1958–59, no. 107.
• Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1990 (recorded on the collection website; this investigation notes that the work is not in its edition of the catalogue).

Notes

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

Published documentation for this file is thin. Catalogue numbers, exhibitions and bibliography are given only where the source recorded them.

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

The Foundation E. G. Bührle Collection confirms Dr. Louis Devraigne, inv. 70, oil on canvas, 61 × 50 cm, dated 1915 by the collection. Emil Bührle acquired the painting on 2 October 1953; the heirs gave it to the foundation in 1960. The 1914 Bern dating is left as published. The work is not numbered in the principal catalogues, as this file already records.

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