Minoutcha

Identification

Published titles

English: Minoutcha.

Date

1917. Lanthemann dated the related number to 1916; D’Atri papers date the work 1916.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

55.3 × 33 cm (D’Atri: 55 × 33 cm).

Signature

Signed modigliani at bottom right, in white, with the inscription MINOUTCHA at top left.

Present location

Private collection, Verona?

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. Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris.
2. Marcel Bernheim Collection, Paris.
3. Wally Findlay Galleries, Palm Beach.
4. Arthur and Renée Freed Gallery, Los Angeles.
5. Private collection, Switzerland.
6. Private collection, Verona (1991?).
7. Sotheby’s, London, 28 June 1961, lot 143, sold £11,000.
8. Sotheby’s, New York, 16 May 1979, lot 250, sold $210,000.
9. Sotheby’s, 24 June 1986, lot unrecorded in this investigation.
10. Phillips, New York, 7 May 2001, lot 34, sold $2,600,000.

This investigation states that the order of the sales and the intervening private owners is not clear. The sequence above follows the published list without rearranging it.

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. 19.¹
• Pierre Descargues, Amedeo Modigliani, Paris, Braun, 1954, no. 50.²
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 112.³
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 170 in the bibliography assembled for this investigation (dated 1916); the catalogue table in this investigation marks Lanthemann as NO?.⁴
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 166.⁵
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 171.⁶
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.⁷

Exhibitions

• Verona, Palazzo Forti, Modigliani a Montparnasse, 1988, p. 44.
• Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Modigliani, 1990, no. 69.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 294, 55 × 33 cm, dated 1916, provenance Marcel Bernheim, Paris, then Bernheim-Jeune, Paris.

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