Identification

Published titles

English: Chaim Soutine; Soutine seated; Soutine at a table; Chaim Soutine seated at a table.

Date

1917. Some authors date the work 1916; the museum dates it 1917. Parisot and Patani date it 1916.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

91.7 × 59.7 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right. Reverse not recorded as seen.

Present location

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Chester Dale Collection, inv. 1963.10.47. Bequest 1963.

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 (sold 1928).
3. Étienne Bignou, Paris (sold 1929).
4. Alex Reid & Lefèvre, London, half share with de Hauke & Co., New York (sold 1929).
5. Chester Dale Collection, New York (1929–1963).
6. National Gallery of Art, Washington, inv. 1963.10.47. Bequest 1963.

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.

• Chester Dale, 1929, pl. 43.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929, p. 29.¹
• James Thrall Soby, 1951, p. 41.²
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 176.³
• National Gallery of Art, Chester Dale catalogues, 1965 and later.
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 313.⁴
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 155.⁵
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 19/1916.⁶
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 158 (dated 1916).⁷

Exhibitions

• London, Reid & Lefevre, 1929, no. 10.
• New York, De Hauke & Co., 1929, no. 15.
• New York, Demotte, 1931, no. 19.
• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1933, no. 25.
• Basel, Kunsthalle, 1934, no. 17.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Chester Dale Collection, 1943–51.
• Cleveland Museum of Art and New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1951.
• Washington, National Gallery of Art, The Chester Dale Bequest, 1965; anniversary exhibition, 1983–84; From Impressionism to Modernism, 2010–12.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 25, size 92 × 60.5 cm, dated 1917.

This investigation records holes at the corners of the support. Two sides are recorded; the remainder is described as covered by restoration or cleaning.

The National Gallery of Art confirms Chaim Soutine, Chester Dale Collection, inv. 1963.10.47, oil on canvas, 91.7 × 59.7 cm, signed at upper right. An earlier museum page dated the work 1917; the current page dates it 1918. The museum chain names Jacques Netter, Étienne Bignou, Alex Reid & Lefèvre in half share with de Hauke & Co., sold to Chester Dale on 21 May 1929, bequest 1963.

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