Totote de la Gaîté (The sad eyes)
Oil on canvas?, 1917
Identification
- Published titles
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English: Young woman; The sad eyes.
French: Totote de la Gaîté; Les yeux tristes. - Date
- 1917.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas?
- Dimensions
- 73 × 54 cm. Pfannstiel published an incorrect size.
- Signature
- Signed Modigliani. at top right.
- Present location
- Private collection?
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 150 |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 217 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 210 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | 21/1917 |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 216 |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | ? |
| Modigliani Initiative | ? |
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
- Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
- Paul Guillaume, Paris.
- Galerie Bing, Paris (1925).
- Dr Charpentier, Paris (by 1929).
- Sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 30 March 1954, lot 91.
- Private collection, Paris (by 1965).
- Halphen Collection, France.
- Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 30 June 1982, lot 34.
- Private collection, Germany.
- Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 19 June 2007, L07007, lot 17 (estimate GBP 3,500,000–4,500,000; sold GBP 4,164,000).
- Private collection?
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. 25 (wrong size; titled The sad eyes); 1956, no. 150.1
- Raffaello Franchi, Modigliani, Florence, Arnaud, 1944, pl. 12; 1946, no. 22.
- Jacques Lipchitz, 1954, pls. 42–43.2
- Ambrogio Ceroni, 1965, no. 202.3
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 210.4
- Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 217.5
- Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 216.6
- Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 21/1917.7
Exhibitions
- Paris, Galerie Bing, 1925 (number not recorded).
- Tokyo and Osaka, Daimaru, Love and Nostalgia for Montparnasse, 1979, Tokyo no. 14.
- Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 55.
Notes
This investigation marks the work as not located in the D’Atri papers.
This investigation records a painting beneath the present image, with scratching near the neck on the right and red from the earlier layer visible.
This investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.
Footnotes
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.
- Jacques Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, New York, H. N. Abrams, 1954.
- Ambrogio Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: dessins et sculptures; avec suite du catalogue illustré des peintures, Milan, Edizioni del Milione, 1965.
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
- Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
- Osvaldo Patani, Modigliani. Catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
- Christian Parisot, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, Livorno, Graphis Arte, 1991.