Renée (Mme Kisling)

Identification

Published titles

English: Renée / Mme Kisling / Bust of Renée.

Date

1917.

Medium

Oil on cardboard? The museum lists canvas; this investigation states that a high-resolution unframed photograph shows the borders of textured cardboard.

Dimensions

61.1 × 50.2 cm? D’Atri papers: 61 × 38 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top left, with the inscription RENEE at top right.

Present location

Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan.

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. Sabouraud Collection, Paris (1933).
2. Private collection, Tokyo.
3. Pola Museum of Art, Hakone. This investigation records no further transfer data into the museum.

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.

• Nello Ponente, Modigliani, Barcelona, Toray, 1969, pl. 22.¹
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 163 (dated 1917).²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 150 in the catalogue table in this investigation; the same bibliography also cites Lanthemann no. 170.³
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 170 (dated 1917).⁴
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.⁵

Exhibitions

• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition, 1933, no. 40.
• Basel, Kunsthalle, Amedeo Modigliani, 1934.
• Tokyo, Art Gallery Tokyu, Modigliani, Utrillo, Kisling, 1980, no. 15.
• Tokyo, National Museum, Modigliani exhibition, 1985, no. 77.
• Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, same exhibition, 1985.
• Hakone, Pola Museum of Art, Finding Modigliani, 2014.
• Villeneuve-d’Ascq, LaM, L’œil intérieur, 2016.
• Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery, Modigliani, 2016.
• Helsinki, Ateneum Art Museum, Modigliani, 2016–17.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 40, dated 1917, Sabouraud collection; size given as 61 × 38 cm.

This investigation records holes at the four corners of the support.

This investigation records that the support, traditionally published as canvas, shows the chipping and pin-head circle of textured cardboard when seen unframed.

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.